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TIL Guillermo del Toro talked with Universal to direct a remake of Creature from the Black Lagoon, tried pitching a version where the Creature ended up together with the female lead, the studio rejected the concept. However, The Shape of Water received a leading 13 nominations at the 90th Oscars.

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pBNb TIL That after the genocide of Tasmanian Aborigines, there are many recorded cases of bodies being claimed for scientific study and museum displays, and one case of a body being exhumed so the scrotum could be used for a tobacco pouch.
vbX4 TIL That a mother of a cheerleader hired a hitman to murder another girl’s mom so her own daughter had a better chance of making the squad
N74e TIL In Colonial America, women were sentenced to the stocks with wooden clips on their tongues or subjected to the “dunking stool” for the gender-specific crime of talking too much.
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