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TIL that in “The Shining” director Stanley Kubrick was able to film all of Danny Lloyd’s scenes without the six-year-old actor realizing he was in a horror movie.

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p8prZ TIL the famous Rokeby Venus painting was attacked by a suffragette with a meat cleaver in 1914. She stated that she wanted to destroy the most beautiful woman in mythological history, in protest against the government for destroying Emmeline Pankhurst, the most beautiful woman in modern history.
EK4X TIL that all unreleased Kennedy assassination documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act. Among the items most sought after by researchers are some 1,171 documents still closed by the CIA on national security grounds.
loB0V TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.
woLjY TIL of the Hubble-Barn unit of volume, arrived at by multiplying the size of an atomic nucleus by the length of the observable universe, equal to 13.1L.
YpVAB TIL that Bono paid $1,500 to have a hat transported from London to him in Italy by taxi and in the cockpit of a British Airways flight.