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TIL PayPal Forced An Online Buyer To Destroy An Antique Violin To Get His Money Back After He Buyer Claimed It Wasn’t What He Wanted

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vPjkB TIL: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is partly an economic tale of a family losing their jobs to technology and becoming so poor they had to eat people.
gMDJb TIL that in the movie Alien, the actors were not told that the Xenomorph was going to burst through Kane's chest, as to make the reactions real, even causing Veronica, one of the actors, to pass out.
oBeNA TIL world’s tallest man (7-foot-9) saved two dolphins by pulling plastic material out of their stomachs with his long arms.
4k6yN TIL that during Star Trek filming, censors required actresses not to show their navels. Gene Roddenberry was so irked by this that he made the villains in his 1973 TV movie "Genesis II" identifiable by each having two navels, thus filming each navel he’d previously been forced to censor twice over.
KYmJG TIL that in the town of Ashbourne in England they still play a version of football which can be dated back to the 12th century this version is called Shrovetide football and it is played over two days.