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TIL Charles Manson Actually Once Was a Choir Boy

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8eg9L TIL Roger Ebert’s Superbad review was simply headlined “McLovin It.” He gave it 3.5/4 stars, comparing it to Animal House but calling it “more mature, as all movies are.”
adjL TIL That when Joseph Stalin’s first wife died, he said “This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.” He eventually went on to execute her brother, her sister, and her cousin.
pYJ5N TIL that in The Shawshank Redemption, when Morgan Freeman’s character is asked “why do they call you Red?” and he responds with “maybe it’s because I’m Irish”.
oRe98 TIL Harvard punter / receiver Pat McInally was the only NFL player to score a perfect 50/50 on the Wonderlic intelligence test in 1975. When he took it again in 2007 and got 1 question wrong he quipped "Missed one. Not a bad score after six concussions."
7yYZ TIL an American POW in Osaka, narrowly avoided an execution by uttering the words “He can kill me, but he will not kill my spirit, and my spirit will lodge inside him and haunt him for the rest of his life.”. The Japanese officer backed off.