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TIL the Aztec death whistle produces a horrifying sound sometimes described as “the scream of thousand corpses”

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yVyEl TIL about Behind Closed Doors, a book of pornographic SpongeBob drawings created by Nickelodeon storyboard artists. "The illustrations...contain scenarios such as SpongeBob masturbating, Mr. Krabs defecating into a toilet, and Squidward Tentacles 'reimagined as a sentient penis with tentacles.'"
D1xAg TIL that Frank Sinatra did not serve in the military during WWII, classified as F4 (Registrant not acceptable for military service) because the US Army considered him "not acceptable material from a psychiatric viewpoint".
MLaA TIL The movie “The Warriors”, about a Brooklyn gang fighting its way past rivals to make it back to Coney Island, was an adaptation from the Ancient Greek text “Anabasis” by Xenophon about Greek mercenaries stranded 1,000 miles behind Persian lines trying to fight their way back home.
r7Xw TIL that a German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion by hand like a 21st-century monastic scribe as his final project.
R554a TIL that it has been scientifically proven that you actually catch more flies with vinegar than you do with honey.