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Til about Mckamey manor a literal house of torture

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xVWgg TIL William Randolph Hearst went to great lengths to shut down the production of Citizen Kane, going so far as to purportedly arranging for a naked woman to jump into director Orson Welles' arms at his hotel room; a photographer would also be hiding to take a "salacious" photo of them.
n0g7 TIL All new building built in South Korea are required to spend 0.7% of the construction cost on artwork for public viewing.
J1P54 TIL That the Largest Denomination of U.S. Currency Was the $100,000 Bill
ADwEn TIL In Jurassic park (1993), the insect trapped in amber and which made the cloning of dinosaur possible was actually elephant mosquito. It's the only mosquito that doesn't suck blood, so cloning wasn't actually possible.
Y7REP TIL, that the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is an unratified constitutional amendment still pending from 1789. It's the earliest of six unratified amendments. It would have mandated that the number of house representatives increase with population.