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TIL in the original script for The Truman Show, Truman watches 2 men rape a woman and does nothing, threatens to smash a baby on the floor, cheats on his wife with a hooker, and waterboards his wife

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x6o01 TIL of "set de flo'", an old African-American type of dance contest in which participants would do specific dance moves inside a circle on the floor; if you step outside the circle, you lose. Sometimes they would balance a glass of water on their head for extra challenge.
Ay0w TIL After Tom Waits denied Audi permission to use his song “Innocent while you dream”, they did so anyway and he succesfully sued them, afterwards saying “Now they understand the words to the song better… It wasn’t Innocent When You Scheme, it was Innocent When You Dream.”
8BDV TIL that a man raped his son’s rapist for revenge.
4X4ga TIL in the early 1900s, women used hatpins to fend off sexual harassers in the streets. These pins were so effective in fending off assaulters that legislation was proposed to curb these “accessories to assault.” Men would often come away with wounds that were “not serious, but very painful.”
7rgGM TIL People generally become love addicts due to a past history of abandonment from their primary caregivers. Adult love addicts usually recognized as children that their most precious needs for validation, love and connection with one or both parents were not met. This affects their self-esteem