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TIL that Guillermo del Toro was going to direct a film adaption of H.P Lovecraft's At the mountains of madness but it was cancelled by Universal due to the fact it was R-rated

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pYymA TIL If you have a fear of bridges, you can hire a service where someone gets behind the wheel of your car and drives you across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a 4.3-mile stretch in Maryland known as one of the scariest bridges in the world.
61VY TIL Gabe Newell is so confident in Valve’s Steam Guard he has announced his Steam username and password and challenged people to get in
611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.
k8Bd TIL Thomas Edison was a jealous asshole. He was so jealous of George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla that he would publicly electrocute animals to prove how bad Alternating Current was. Edison jumped at the chance to publicly electrocute Topsy the elephant at The Luna Park Zoo.
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