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TIL The pattern on the moth, on The Silence of the Lambs poster, is actually 7 naked ladies from a Salvador Dali painting

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Zp0Vo TIL that the founder of Chili's restaurant chain, Larry Levine, was inspired to open a restaurant that served chili and burgers and had the friendly environment of the chili cookoffs his Father in-law hosted. His FIL was famed racing driver and performance car constructor, Carroll Shelby.
xAbw TIL Bayer sold HIV and Hepatitis C contaminated blood products that caused up to 10,000 people in U.S.A alone to contract HIV. After they found out they pulled it off the shelves in the U.S. and sold it to countries in Asia and Latin America so they wouldn’t lose money from it.
DjmP TIL Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibian car which he drove into lakes while screaming that his brakes where malfunctioning.
d8NrQ TIL that the “actor” in Hook that is put into the Boo Box is none other than Academy Award Actress Glenn Close. She can definitely rock a beard, and those screams terrified me as a kid.
1vr4 TIL that children’s author Roald Dahl was given a ‘Viking funeral’, and buried with wine, snooker cues, pencils and a power saw