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VBlxQ TIL: The Wilhelm Scream is a distinct sound effect of a scream has been used in over 3,000 movies & films. It's a Hollywood in-joke and once you hear and know about, you'll hear over and over again in almost every action film you watch.
loJaK TIL in Japanese department stores, the staff will offer to put a plastic cover on your shopping bag when it rains. All of the staff knows it is raining outside without looking is because of a special BGM played only when it rains.
QJkPd TIL the term "cliffhanger" is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's novel "A Pair of Blue Eyes," serialized in Tinsley's Magazine in 1872-3, in which a protagonists is left literally hanging off a cliff.
kogm TIL that 53% of infants born in America are on food stamps
78gxL TIL of Jacco Macacco, a ~5kg ape of unknown species, who, after attacking his sailor-mates over some milk, went on to become Britain's most famous pit-fighting monkey, defeating 14 dogs in a row. His gory death, in his fight with the famous bitch Puss, led MPs introduce animal cruelty legislation