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TIL that during the filming of Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP in James Cameron’s soup, sending him and 50 others to the hospital

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4kynb TIL about a lost 1959 film starring Bela Lugosi called ‘Lock Up Your Daughters’. Some believe that the film may have never existed at all due to there being very little information on the film.
nek9 TIL that Google Earth is censored by the Dutch goverment in an unique way.
69mP7 TIL that all London taxi drivers must take the Knowledge of London test. This involves memorizing nearly every street within a six-mile radius of central London. It also includes learning the blue book which lists 320 routes that must be memorized from start to finish. It takes up to 3 years to do.
awB1A TIL of the micromort, a unit of risk defined as one one-in-a-million chance of death. Travelling 10km on a bike, 400km in a car, and 10,000km via jet all expose you to 1 μmt of risk. Simply existing at age 90 exposes you to 300 μmt a day.
69YK7 TIL about Thomas Scot Halpin, a fan of UK band The Who, who during a 1973 Quadrophenia tour concert volunteered to fill in for the remainder of the set after drummer Keith Moon had passed out from drugs and alcohol.