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TIL: In the late 1970s, directors Errol Morris and Werner Herzog collaborated on an Ed Gein documentary, but their project fell through.

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VBmKp TIL composer Rudolph Karel composed operas by writing on toilet paper while imprisoned during WWII
Z8Ona TIL In Australia, the Henley-on-Todd Regatta is held annually on the dry Todd riverbed. Competitors run down the course carrying bottomless boats. It was cancelled once, in 1993, due to flooding
kJoB7 TIL of Emory Andrew Tate Jr, a black American chess Master, once described as “a trailblazer for African-American chess”. He is also the father of Andrew Tate.
LkJ6v TIL in 19th-Century America, popcorn was eaten with milk and sweetener as a breakfast cereal.
8a84Z TIL that a reliable, non-defective calculator can randomly make an isolated mistake called a soft error (e.g. returning 2+2=5). The odds of seeing one are astronomically low, and, interestingly, cosmic rays are a main source of the problem.