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TIL Hitchcock tried to buy all copies of the book Psycho, so that no one would know how it ended before seeing the film.

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6E86w TIL of Mason McDeid who cried constantly from severe cerebral palsy issues; his father failed to comfort him with classical & new age music. Then he tried Metallica & the child stopped crying, fell asleep. Now in his 20s, unable to speak, Mason has had 100+ surgeries & attended 450+ metal concerts.
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