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M7Jm8 TIL Werner Herzog threatened to shoot Klaus Kinski—and then himself—on the set of Aguirre, the Wrath of God to prevent Kinski from walking off the job.
9YKG TIL that the tobacco industry codenamed lung cancer “ZEPHYR” to avoid acknowledging it in internal memos.
Z814B TIL, that The Statue of Liberty was originally proposed and built to be placed on the mouth of The Suez Canal. The project was initially scrapped, after a lack of funds. And later on, sent to the USA as a gift after successful procurement of funds.
neZ99 TIL that the cone snail, one of the most venomous animals on earth, releases a cloud of insulin when a fish swims by, causing it to go into hypoglycemic shock, immobilizing it so it can inject the fish with a cocktail of up to 200 toxins
GYwDQ TIL the Rotary Club is a specific humanitarian organization - not a club where people talk about their old fashioned phones