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TIL Attila the Hun died not in battle, but of a nosebleed after his wedding feast. It is thought he choked on blood.

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e0abk TIL the dwarf actors in the 1987 film The Garbage Pail Kids Movie could only survive in their costumes for five to seven minutes before their oxygen depleted, so a paramedic with a stop watch was required on set in order to keep the takes quick, and the actors from asphyxiating.
4kD06 TIL of the complicated I Dig It tax loophole. It's an intentionally defective grantor trust, or IDGT, for short and allows for someone to decrease their estate with no gift or transfer tax consequences. The IRS has never blessed the loophole but it says its powerless to stop it.
4XbQX TIL: Alfred Hitchcock was so afraid of Psycho being spoiled ahead of time that he bought up as many copies of the original novel as possible. He also insisted that cinemas (for the first time) schedule screening times, sell tickets for those screenings, and not let anyone in after the film started.
aKLN TIL that Ultra-pasteurized milks like Organic Horizon and Stonyfield do not need to be refrigerated. They are put into the cooling section at the store cause People don’t trust unrefrigerated milk especially in the US.
neYko TIL the USSR considered Darwinian evolution a lie created by "bourgeois capitalism", and instead opted for Lamarckian evolution for political reasons. The failure of Soviet biologists to acknowledge natural selection resulted in a series of crop failures and food shortages.