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TIL the Elephant Man was unable to sleep lying down for his whole life and finally experimented, leading to his death. It was claimed that his death was due to the desire that had dominated his life—the pathetic but hopeless desire to be ‘like other people’

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a6mL TIL- Killer Peter Kurten, the so-called Vampire of Dusseldorf asked the prison psychiatrist shortly before he was executed by guillotine, : “Tell me, after my head has been chopped off will I still be able to hear; at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck?”
brG9 TIL there is a wild animal in East Asia called the Raccoon Dog which looks like a raccoon but is actually a dog.
XE80D TIL Cruella almost made a return as the main villain in 1972s The Rescuers and concept art was even drew up for it
OG8aa TIL: Classic comedy movie "Airplane!" was based on "Zero Hour!" which was based on a teleplay called "Flight Into Danger" which starred James Doohan -- Original Star Trek's Scotty --- as the disgraced war pilot who saves the plane.
R9Rj TIL Radox Spa commissioned a study to find the Top 9 most relaxing songs. The British Academy of Sound Therapy then teamed w/ Marconi Union to scientifically create the most calming song called Weightless. Using entrainment, your heart rate slows, and specific harmonic intervals create euphoria.