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TIL Matthew Wood, the sound director for the Star Wars sequel trilogy, decided to stop using the iconic Wilhelm Scream, made famous in the original trilogy, and introduced a different iconic scream that has been used in films but kept a secret.

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yVYep TIL: In the 1920s, the Radium Ore Revigator popular enough that the company could not keep up with demand. It was a water crock lined with radioactive materials (uranium). You would fill it up with water to irradiate it overnight. The irradiated water would cure arthritis, senility, and flatulence.
VyZk TIL the village of Liscannor in Ireland has one pub for every 26 people, the healthiest ratio in the country.
WnW4 TIL during the rap battle montages in 8 Mile, Eminem would mime to save his voice. However after one rapper got a particularly good audience reaction, he turned his mic on and improvised a verse in response rather than let himself be beaten.
lXmN TIL that during the week of 4 April 1964, the Beatles held the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles simultaneously. This feat hasn’t been accomplished by any other artist to date, the closest being 50-Cent, who placed three titles simultaneously.
aGP9 TIL of Harry Thaw who killed architect Stanford White and was acquitted based on the defense of “dementia Americana,” a phenomenon that caused American men to become temporarily insane and seek revenge against those who had tainted their wives’ virtue. Thaw had married White’s former mistress.