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TIL isaac newton and several other scientific gurus died virgins

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GkxQ TIL when asked if there was validity in the media’s criticism of violence in his movies, Quentin Tarantino said, “Sure, Kill Bill’s a violent movie. But it’s a Tarantino movie. You don’t go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to turn the music down.”
XgZ8 TIL in 2009 a Man Who Was an Expert on How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico Was Kidnapped in Mexico After Giving a Lecture On “How To Not Be Kidnapped in Mexico”
oBD1Y TIL that the last remaining copies of hundreds of silent movies made by Fox and MGM were permanently destroyed during two vault fires (1937 and 1965); including entire collections of some of the greatest actors and directors of the silent era.
p8074 TIL : Belgrade (capital city of Serbia) has one of the greatest strategic positions, in fact so big, that there were 115 battles for it and it was destroyed about 40 times.
8elaa TIL that the idea of a Potemkin Village was used in multiple countries to cover up an unpleasant or damaging part of town. It derived from stories of a former lover of Catherine II who wanted to impress her so he made portable villages and moved them to reuse in the next part of Crimea, 1787