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TIL Spinal Tap is the only movie on IMDb to be rated out of 11 stars

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LQpL0 TIL That Ancient Egyptians didn't name their cats individually like dogs, instead they were all called by the Ancient Egyptian equivalent of "meow", or "Miu", an onomatopoetic reference to the sound that cats make.
5V0v8 TIL The '90s band Save Ferris has 6 current members and 25 former members.
6956Y TIL that Finland, the country of thousands of lakes, does not have that much water. The average depth of its lakes is only 7 meters, meaning that all the lake water in Finland combined is less than a fourth of the contents of Ladoga. However, to be fair, Ladoga is the largest lake in Europe.
9Ymxr TIL that a "loose cannon" is an apt name for something out of control: when an 8000 pound cannon came loose from a mooring on a ship, it could wreak terror on the crew as it wiped out anything or person in its path and destroyed the ship's walls
x6E5 TIL Stephen King is writing a sequel to “The Shining,” called “Doctor Sleep,” set to be published in 2013.