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TIL Zimbabwe's bank balance was a total of just $217 at the start of 2013

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xVrDg TIL About the McKamey Manor, You must sign a 40 page waiver, and the ordeal can last up to 8 hours. People who have went inside the house were reported to have been Waterboarded, Tied, Abused, and getting Buried Alive with Tarantulas. There is a $20K Prize if you can finish, yet no one has.
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kRv5 TIL Anthony Hopkins played Adolf Hitler in the 1981 movie The Bunker. He won an Emmy Award and actors on the set claimed his performance was so convincing that those playing German soldiers snapped to attention whenever Hopkins came onto the set, even if he wasn’t in character.