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TIL - Anthony Perkins', who played Norman Bates in Psycho [1960], wife was killed during 9/11 as she was a passenger on flight 11

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VMjQZ TIL Predjama Castle was under seige by the Austrian army for almost a year. The castle lasted so long because it had a secret tunnel in the back which brought food to the castle. The seige ended only when the ruler died on the latrine after getting hit by a cannonball.
lBlA TIL in 1992, Polish-Irish businessman Stefan Klincewicz beat the lottery and made a profit by buying all possible number combinations when the jackpot became high enough to profit. The game was changed soon after.
o887 TIL of the jumping cholla, a cactus that can break itself off and embed in you when you get near it.
78rrO TIL that Buddhists create sand mandalas only to destroy them, to teach the belief that nothing lasts forever.
9wNgM TIL that dolphin milk is unsafe for humans to drink because of high concentrations of PCB’s.