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TIL that the inventor of lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine. Egas Moniz was also a duelist, medical school dean, member of parliament, ambassador and foreign minister. Once he was shot by a patient but survived. Moniz also authored many books, even one on the history of playing cards.

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69RXX TIL in the 1982 film Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the song “London Bridges” was chosen as the melody for the Silver Shamrock jingle simply because it was available in the public domain, and therefore saving the filmmaker’s the cost of licensing a song or hiring someone to write a jingle.
pN9Z TIL: Jimmy Savile was not just a paedophile. His victims were aged up to 75, and he was an overt necrophiliac.
grAmL TIL in 1986 while being filmed for the Bangles music video "Walk Like An Egyptian", Susanna Hoffs moved her eyes from side to side to look at certain members in the crowd to counter stage fright and had no idea that a close up of her doing so would become a focal point and iconic moment in the video
rR640 TIL that a 1631 edition of the Bible published by the royal printers of London caused an uproar when it was found that the Ten Commandments included “thou shalt commit adultery.” Most copies of this Wicked Bible were found and ordered destroyed; the few that survived are highly sought by collectors.
OL1Y TIL actor Dave Foley can’t return to Canada withoutt going to jail because he owes 600,000 and is “ literally obligated to give away 400% of my income, or otherwise go to jail.”