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TIL Sergio Leone raised $100m to produce & direct a movie set during the Siege of Leningrad with Robert De Niro playing an American journalist inside the city. It would have been the industry’s first-ever $100m production, but Leone passed away 48 hours before signing a contract to film on location.

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OGjeR TIL about the functions of humans' foreskins
LQlW9 TIL chlorinated water has no smell. The 'pool smell' is actually chlorine combined with urine. The stronger the pool smell, the more urine in the pool.
b9KZZ TIL about Makuragaeshi which are Japanese spirits that visit people at night to flip their pillows over. They're mentioned in stories from the Edo period to modern times. In ancient Japan, they believed the soul left the body during dreams and that it couldn't return if the pillow was flipped.
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