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TIL The Sopranos was first called The Family Man

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epygb TIL Robert Todd Lincoln was present at two Presidential assassinations, his father’s not one of them. He also had his life saved by the brother of John Wilkes Booth.
m11JP TIL that the bar scenes in “Passengers” (2016) pays homage to the bar in the Overlook Hotel in the “The Shining” (1980). The look and layout is similar and both “barmen” wearing red are not human.
E1bNo TIL Chinese debtors shamed with broadcast of names and faces on giant screens on May 1 holiday
M7ZJm TIL Edvard Grieg’s “Morning Mood” wasn’t written to paint a Norwegian sunrise. The music actually accompanies a scene in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt where Peer wakes up stranded in the Moroccan desert (surrounded by acacias and palm trees) — not a Scandinavian fjord.
yVXow TIL You can have a heart attack without having any blocked arteries, it’s called a MINOCA(myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries)