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TIL Hitchcock demanding set start times for Psycho is what started that practice

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KrjG TIL that paternity tests are outlawed in France and Germany “due to fears that more families could be broken by divorce if all fathers were given access to them.”
NXAa6 TIL of Primula Niven, wife of Hollywood actor David Niven, who died from a 'hide-and-seek game' accident at Tyrone Power's Hollywood mansion. Also in attendance that evening were Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and Caesar Romero.
W7MA4 TIL the USA ran secret radiation experiments on unconsenting patients
EME7 TIL that “Eye Of The Tiger” was written by Survivor, at the request of Sylvester Stallone, who was unable to get permission for Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” for Rocky III.
JYEgv TIL Autopsy studies of men who died of other causes found prostate cancer in 30% of men in their 50s, and in 80% of men in their 70s