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TIL The term "Basket Case" comes from quadriplegic WWI soldiers who had to be carried around in a basket

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b9vP4 TIL venomous and poisonous are different. If you bite it and die, it is poisonous. If it bites you and you die, it is venomous.
VZG8 TIL that it took about 40 years for Poland’s population to return to its 1939 level.
xLgB TIL Nicolas Cage won China’s ‘Best Global Actor’ award in 2013
E10YX TIL Many “Vampire killing kits”, allegedly from the 19th century, are sold in auction houses such as Sotheby’s, for upwards of $12,000. However, their authenticity is debatable as they contain materials that place them as being made in the 1930s or later. There is also no historical basis for them.
P14XJ TIL the 14-year-old actress in Kubrick's Lolita was apparently having a real-life "Lolita" experience with a 32-year-old producer during filming