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TIL that movie theaters have been banned in Saudi Arabia since the 1980s.

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EBx7 TIL - Bank heists almost never happened, in the wild west days, no matter how much Hollywood tries to make us believe
eEV5 TIL during the shooting of The Blues Brothers, cocaine was included as part of the movie’s budget.
m1YAp TIL Jacobo Pazzi was hanged next to a rotting corpse, then was buried, dug up and thrown in a ditch, then dragged through the streets, propped at the door of his palace with his head used as a doorknob, thrown in a river, fished out by children, hanged again, flogged and thrown back in the river
x6amb TIL of the Normandy Massacres, a series of killings committed against Canadian soldiers by Hitler Youth SS troops. Around 1-in-7 of Canadian deaths during the Battle of Normandy were executions.
LQ0Er TIL that when Johannes Rebmann, the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro, published his discovery in 1849, it was dismissed as a malaria-induced hallucination because it was believed that snow at this latitude was impossible. It took 12 more years for scholars to accept the mountain's existence.