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TIL that Stanley Kubrick forced Shelley Duvall to film the scene of her on the stairs during “The Shining” 127 times. Her misery wasn’t even her acting at that point.

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l7Z9G TIL Mount Rushmore, or Six Grandfathers is the sacred site for many Indigenous people including the Sioux, the US betrayed the Sioux & abandoned its ratified treaty with them due to the Gold Rush & insulted them further by blowing the mountains to build the "National Memorial Shrine of Democracy"
gMx5X TIL ‘My Humps’ by The Black Eyed Peas is considered by many critics to be the worst song of all time, with one stating it ‘may actually represent the nadir of human achievement’
x64Lg TIL the patron saint of businesspeople is St. Homobonus.
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