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TIL Steven Spielberg took no profits from making Schindler’s List, and used all of the them to create the Shoah Foundation. He even referred to the profits as “blood money.”

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xbeo TIL theres a screenplay named ‘Atuk’ which has never been made into a movie because anyone who has shown interest in playing the lead role has died unexpectedly, including John Candy, Chris Farley, John Belushi and Sam Kinison
GAyJE TIL about Lampo the train dog, who memorized the Italian train schedule and used the system to travel around the country and return home at sunset all on his own.
vPNaR TIL that, when coffee arrived from Arabia to Europe, it boosted the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. In the early days, the Royal Society of London used to meet in a coffee shop, not in a pub.
dE0E TIL statues of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow are still on cathedrals all over Germany
Z8Dr4 TIL that some of the people born deaf think in sign language. When thinking, they see themselves using sign language in a first or third person view.