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TIL because ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ was filmed on a microscopic budget of $60,000, the cast and crew had to work 7 days a week, 12-16 hours a day in 115°F heat in a poorly ventilated farmhouse amid rotting roadkill being used as props to finish the film.

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xVrgk Today I learned that Einstein won the Nobel Prize not for his famous equation E=mc^2 but for the discovery of the photoelectric effect.
W7yld TIL of Mary Tofts who successfully tricked doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. OK, the year was 1726, and it was in the darker regions of England, but even the surgeon to the Royal Household of King George I fell for it. Nonetheless, rabbit stew was off most tables for a time
P1KGn TIL In the 1960s, Washington D.C.'s poor areas were plagued by severe rat problems until Julius Hobson began catching them by trapping enormous rats, and attaching the cage to his car’s roof and drove to affluent districts where he warned of setting the rodents free, spurring rat control measures.
8a5PP TIL that a Florida man recognized himself in the background in the iconic cover of Abbey Road
W7VbN TIL: Corn plants release thousands of gallons of water into the air every day as they grow (transpiration). This can change the humidity of the air and even the weather in the corn belt.