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TIL when Alien was first screened to audiences, ushers fainted, people vomited, and some ran screaming from the theater.

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VL0B TIL that Warner Bros executives didn’t like the idea of Tim Burton killing off Jack Nicholson’s character in the movie, Mars Attacks! In response, Burton had Nicholson then play two characters and killed both of them off.
Z8QMQ TIL the IQ classification scale in 1928 included the phrases ‘Moron’ (50-74), ‘Imbeciles’ (25-49) and ‘Idiots’ (0-24). So calling someone an idiot is actually pretty insulting.
pepQ TIL that in 1981 Ozzy Osbourne went to a meeting with the head of CBS Europe in Germany so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s glass of wine.
okXA TIL a danish bank robber and rapist was allowed to go on unguarded holiday during his sentence, where he escaped and killed 2 Finnish police officers.
95nr TIL The Smithsonian reports that more than likely “Tisquantum” (meaning divine rage) was not the famous Native American’s birth name, but identifying himself as so was like sticking his hand out to the Pilgrims and saying “Hello, I’m the Wrath of God.”