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TIL Seven naked women make up the moth’s skull featured on the poster of The Silence of the Lambs. The human recreation was inspired by a Salvador Dali portrait.

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gr09A TIL there is actually a Lime Disease, not caused by deer ticks, but by exposure to lime juice and UV light
YZkA TIL: Sun Tzu specifically advised against prolonged or pointless military campaigns and saying they would ultimately destroy a nation.
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nNr7 TIL that when Zach Braff originally appeared on MTV’s “Punk’d,” he actually punched Ryan Pinkston in the stomach, but the fight was edited out of the footage; in Braff’s own words, “They edited it out, because apparently you’re not supposed to punch people on Punk’d.”