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TIL that Stanley Kubrick had a full-size replica of the Overlook Hotel's Colorado Lounge built on a soundstage in England for The Shining (1980) and intentionally designed it with impossible architecture and spatial inconsistencies to subtly unnerve the audience

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dDVG9 TIL Mobster Al Capone Ran a Soup Kitchen During the Great Depression and served free meals to thousands of unemployed people every day.
4k0JJ TIL that if you have a bunch of 1x1x1 blocks arranged into two cubes, there is never a way to rearrange the blocks to make a third cube
gM6lD TIL Oliver Sipple was former US marine who thwarted an assassination attempt on President Ford was outed as gay by Harvey Milk, despite his request to keep his sexuality private. As a result, Sipple was disowned by his family and eventually drank himself to death.
VBnwB TIL that proposals for a link between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland were proposed satirically as early as 1799, and seriously from 1886 onwards, but no viable plan for either a bridge or tunnel has ever been put forwards
4Xy6J TIL of the Saratoga Springs Legend. A claim that crisps were invented in New York, despite being invented in England decades earlier. This legend continued into at least the 1970s when a major advertising campaign attributed the invention of crisps to the US.