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TIL a horse cannot vomit

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5YoYn TIL In 1976 Director Werner Herzog made a movie where almost all of the actors performed while under hypnosis ( HERZ AUS GLAS, Heart of Glass).
W7vBA TIL blues singer and early shock rock pioneer Screamin' Jay Hawkins was also a competitive boxer and actually held the title of Middleweight Champion of Alaska in 1949
M4nB TIL Stephen King hated the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film version of The Shining stating; “Shelley Duvall as Wendy is really one of the most misogynistic characters ever put on film.”
yQWY8 TIL In 1995, the Blockbuster video rental chain had more than 4,500 stores. The company made $785 million in profits on $2.4 billion in revenues: a profit margin of over 30 percent. Much of this profit came from "late fees" on overdue rentals
6EWl TIL In 1937 a pharmaceutical company marketed, without prior testing, an antibiotic made using a known poison as a solvent, causing the death of over 100 people and the birth of the FDA