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TIL that Zack Snyder's mom is named Marsha

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XKQP TIL that director Stanley Kubrick had his secretary fill about 500 pages with the iconic “All work and no play” phrase for the film “The Shining”
X0B0R TIL in 1998, a 10-year-old girl in Austria was dragged into a car and kidnapped. The case was unsolved by authorities for 8 years until in 2006 she knocked on someone’s door and said “I am Natascha Kampusch.” She had just escaped the cellar she was being abused in by a local technician.
WPld TIL in WW2 Japan unwittingly created one of the best fighter aircraft of the war. When the inline engines intended for the Ki-61 were destroyed in a bombing raid, engineers shoehorned in a radial engine instead. The resulting amalgamation was the venerable Ki-100.
Lk8xr TIL that the largest cruise ship today, Symphony of the Seas, is the equivalent of almost 5 Titanics in size and mass.
Bg61K TIL In 1964, Dusty Springfield was deported from South Africa for breaking apartheid rules. She said she would only perform to racially-mixed audiences but the authorities didn't approve. She was forced to leave the country before she had finished her tour.