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TIL that Heather Donahue, the lead in The Blair Witch Project, brought a large knife with her to the set on the first day of filming because she was concerned it was a snuff film, and her friends & family didn't want her to do the movie.

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j6yrR TIL Linda Guillory holds the world record for both: the largest collection of playable gaming systems with 2,430 and the largest collection of LCD gaming systems with 1,599.
WxXN TIL that in Chinese-occupied Tibet, the Tibetan’s own language has been banned.
wLmR8 TIL in a eureka moment worthy of Dr. Frankenstein, scientists discovered that two 3,000-year-old mummies in Scotland were actually made from the remains of six people.
9rZX TIL every time you recall a memory, your brain distorts it a bit.
m1jOE TIL that a man in Taiwan was imprisoned for ten years because Chang Kai-shek thought that a Popeye comic he translated was a personal insult