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TIL the "death cry" of the truck in Duel and the shark in Jaws was a sample of the scream of the Creature from the Black Lagoon

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W7Gjd TIL about the Night of the Big Wind, a January 6th 1839 storm that was the most severe to hit Ireland in centuries. Over 20% of houses in Dublin were damaged or destroyed, and was so severe that people believed the world was ending
JY6vv TIL while he was in prison awaiting his trail (and eventual execution), Saddam Hussen was forced by U.S. Marines to repeatedly watch “South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut,” in which he was portrayed as Satan’s homosexual lover.
70gL TIL Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters frontman) to this day does not know how to read sheet music and plays all music by ear.
e0BJD TIL when Queen Victoria first moved to Buckingham palace, it was dirty and cold as staff were lax and lazy and chimneys smoked so much that fires were dampened down.
9jrM TIL that Paul Verhoeven was naked when he directed the co-ed shower scene in his movie “Starship Troopers” because the cast of the movie only agreed to film the nude scenes if the director was nude too.