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TIL Danny Lloyd, the child actor who played Danny Torrance in The Shining, was closely guarded by Kubrick during filming and didn’t know it was a horror film until several years later.

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8aDyV TIL resident killer whales in the eastern North Pacific form matrilineal social groups, consisting of the eldest female, her children, and the descendants of her daughters. Closely related matrilines with similar dialects form aggregations called pods, which in turn form clans and communities.
VMapk TIL Legendary Mötorhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister had his ashes put into bullets and gave them to his closest friends when he died.
akNA TIL that the “holes” in Swiss cheese were, until recently, seen as a sign of imperfection and something cheesemakers tried to avoid
ZbXY TIL: Dwarfs Were Highly Respected In Ancient Egypt
oBwj7 Catching COVID-19 from a dead body is possible, but there’s no proof it’s happened yet.