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TIL that Shutter Island is an anagram for "Truths and Lies" or "Truths/Denials"

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0wDXN TIL: In 1983’s Trading Places, the Dukes are squeezed by a margin call that came about due to short selling based on insider information. While legal at the time, the “Eddie Murphy Rule” finally made this illegal in 2010.
k5A7 TIL >50% of sloth deaths occur on their once a week trip to the ground to dig a hole and defecate
b9g94 TIL that Bruce Willis is partially deaf in his left ear due to some of the loud explosions and gunfire while filming Die Hard. “Due to an accident on the first Die Hard, I suffer two-thirds partial hearing loss in my left ear and have a tendency to say, ‘Whaaa?’” Willis said.
1GgO TIL Stan Durwood, former president of AMC theaters, demanded until his dying day that Snickers be sold at all theaters for 45 cents so when you went to the theaters you could always afford some candy
KOBw6 TIL about Dr. Rodney Marks, an Australian astrophysicist who died from methanol poisoning while working at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The cause of the fatal methanol poisoning has never been determined. Forty-nine other people were at the base at the time of Marks' death.