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TIL That male ducks doesn't quack.
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TIL of Pre-Code Hollywood, a period that produced controversial movies between the invention of sound in films and enforcement of the MPA
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TIL photoflash bombs existed. Dropped by reconnaissance aircraft, these 100lb bombs created a blinding 500,000,000 candlepower burst of light, enabling nighttime aerial reconnaissance photography from high-altitude
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TIL in November 2006 Denise Richards confronted two paparazzi who were photographing her from a balcony, threw their computers off the balcony, which struck two elderly women in wheelchairs.
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TIL that "Strozzapreti" is a type of pasta, which roughly translates as "the priest strangler" because supposedly priests were so ravenous for the noodle they would eat too quickly and choke to death on it.
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TIL that during filming of a music video for a Nine Inch Nails song the ropes holding a camera, used to film Trent Reznor's "dead" body, snapped. The balloon carrying the camera brought it 200 miles to a farmer's field in Michigan. A farmer gave it to the FBI who investigated it as a snuff film.