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TIL Hitchcock wasn't original going to score the famous shower scene in Psycho, but the composer scored it anyway. The composer also ignored Hitchcock's directive in another movie resulting in an end of their collaboration

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bvJQ TIL that after needing 13 liters of blood for a surgery at the age of 13, a man named James Harrison pledged to donate blood once he turned 18. It was discovered that his blood contained a rare antigen which cured Rhesus disease. He has donated blood a record 1,000 times and saved 2,000,000 lives.
R5ZX6 TIL that the so called 'blue zone' areas that contain supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans.
vPZZR TIL that prior to Louisa May Alcott's family residing at Orchard House in Concord, MA, it was the 17th-century home of John Hoare, who helped rescue and shelter Mary Rowlandson, a colonial woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War.
XnVP TIL Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond
6p9J TIL a statue of ‘homeless Jesus’ sleeping on a bench was installed in Orlando where the homeless are banned from sleeping on benches