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TIL that in the Dawn of The Dead movies, the zombies with missing limbs were played by actual amputees

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nenpd TIL Al Capone was the first person to open a soup kitchen to feed the poor during the Depression. At a time of 25 percent unemployment, Capone's kitchens served three meals a day to ensure that everyone who had lost a job could get a meal. Soon, every city and town had a soup kitchen.
X0nPk TIL alcohol causes around 1 in 20 deaths globally each year, through drink driving, alcohol-induced violence and abuse, and a multitude of diseases and disorders
m1jmo TIL A former skyscraper hotel in downtown Houston was left empty from 1988 until 2013 when it was converted into a Holiday Inn. The vacant building still had electricity, a library, and squattors who made themselves at home with leftover furnishings
1a5nr TIL that All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye’s lens. Patients who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
VWPm TIL that Nintendo owns the rights to a pornographic film called Super Hornio Brothers.