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TIL in the movie Misery, when Kathy Bates 'hobbles' James Caan with a sledge hammer, the scene was deliberately downgraded. She was supposed to chop off his foot with an axe, then cauterize the wound with a propane torch.

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awOXA TIL Georgy Zhukov, "hero of the Soviet Union", and victorious general of the Battle of Berlin in 1945, always kept a small bag of clothes and belongings in case he was arrested by his own country's KGB. He did this until 1957.
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Dyjj TIL that the English word cereal is derived from ‘Ceres’, the Roman goddess of harvest and agriculture.
j6dBM TIL that woodsman Francis Wharton made dentures from a dead deer, and then ate the deer with its own teeth
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