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Today I learned Peter Jackson owns the movie rights to a book series about Dragons in the Napoleonic War

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QJ5yM Today I learned that Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart was actually originally written for a Broadway musical about vampires in love, which was never made (unfortunately!).
XRaQ TIL A man who suffered from extreme OCD attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head…he survived and the bullet lodged in the part of the brain where OCD originates thus curing him.
9nLp TIL White Men Can’t Jump was listed as one of Stanley Kubrick’s favourite films.
LNVm TIL That the majority of people believe that violent crime rates are at an all time high, despite the fact that they have been steadily declining for decades
vJ1x TIL the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride” is a reference to prostitutes in Hamburg who were given a card by medical authorities indicating they didn’t have any STDs.