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TIL Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted to erase Gaslight (1940) from existence as to prevent it from competing with their remake of Gaslight when it eventually released in 1944.

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wLZJW TIL while on the set on Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Nicholas Cage had a stalker who also happened to be a mime. When talking about the experience Cage said, ""I was being stalked by a mime—silent, but maybe deadly."
p8jMN TIL Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Richard Feynman put himself on the FBI's Do Not Call list
b9Yw4 TIL in 1999, a study was conducted on the power of crystals vs. placebo. 80 people were asked to meditate with either a quartz crystal or a placebo stone which was indistinguishable from quartz. Most reported feeling typical "crystal effects" irrespective of whether the crystals were real or placebo
17aO TIL Neslte paid doctors and nurses in developing countries in the 1970’s to promote their baby formula over breast-feeding, leading to the deaths of thousands of infants.
dYpQ TIL that in 2009, Charlie Hebdo fired a cartoonist for an anti-Semitic cartoon.