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TIL that Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" album is a rock opera telling the story of man dying in a motorcycle accident and recollecting his life as he lays there dying

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6EbPm TIL Hitler was a highly decorated veteran of WWI. He only wore his wound badge, Iron Cross First Class, and Nazi Party Gold Badge #1 after assuming power.
pkL8 TIL Wes Craven designed Freddy Krueger’s striped sweater after reading in Scientific American that the human eye has difficulty recognizing those particular shades of red and green side by side. Therefore, looking at it is subliminally unsettling.
9wleQ TIL that Bob Clark, director of A Christmas Story, also directed Black Christmas and the first two Baby Geniuses movies
Wkeo9 TIL Yoda is a common Japanese name and Japanese grammar is reversed compared to English just like the way he speaks in the movies.
E1GG7 TIL that a potential complication during vaginal delivery is a "Uterine Inversion". In order to treat said inversion, the attending Doctor quite literally fists the female; he/she grabs the uterus through the vagina, and manually pushes it back into place. The alternative is massive hemorrhage.