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TIL that Steve Buscemi directed the highest rated episode of The Sopranos (on IMDB)

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b9pxQ TIL to gaslight someone, meaning to make one think they're going crazy, comes from the movie Gaslight (1944), where a husband tried to make his wife (Ingrid Bergman) think that very thing by dimming the gas lights in house and making her think she was imagining it.
6DMQ TIL Of children born in Mexican prisons, who live with their mothers and have never experienced the outside world.
wYg6 TIL that President Andrew Jackson was sent a 1,400lb block of cheese. When two years passed and the cheese was still around, he held an open house party at the White House and 10,000 people helped him eat it. Even after it was gone, the stink of the cheese lingered in the White House for years.
6AVY TIL The USA 10 dollar bill from 1914 pictured a man growing marijuana.
nWlJr TIL there's a spinning, floating island in Argentina