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TIL Mathematicians at London's King's College concluded Stanley Kubrick's The Shining(1980) to be the "perfect scary movie" according to new Mathematical Formula. The Formula is : (es+u+cs+t) squared +s+ (tl+f)/2 + (a+dr+fs)/n + sin x - 1

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