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TIL The Alien costume included real vertebrae; Rolls Royce auto-parts, latex and K-Y jelly.

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YV4d TIL Nikola Tesla was born 159 years ago today during a fierce lightning storm. Happy Nikola Tesla Day!
ee7k TIL Stephen King said “Harry Potter” author JK Rowling is a terrific writer, while “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer “can’t write worth a darn.”
40d6 TIL of Texas inmate Jerry Hartfield who has been imprisoned for 35 years, even though his conviction was overturned in 1980. He has never been retried in that time.
bvrE TIL that in 1997, Nelson Mandela described meeting the Spice Girls as “the best day of [his] life.”
kOkKW TIL that Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, eldest brother of Claus, one of the primary architects of the July 20 plot to assassinate Hitler, was also executed for his own participation. He was strangled and revived multiple times, and the whole process was filmed for Hitler to view later.