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TIL that Stephen King threatened bookstore chain B. Dalton with a recall of all his books if they didn't put Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' back on sale.

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JDZB TIL that the director of Cannibal Holocaust Ruggero Deodato was accused of actually murdering the actors in the film to make the deaths more realistic. He had them sign a contract to stay out of the media for a year to make it seem like they had truely died.
R5kZa TIL: film critics Siskel & Ebert had a policy of never taking photos with popcorn or movie candy because they believed it devalued the seriousness and artistic integrity of films.
xBOD TIL that in 2004 a Texas man was put to death for killing his family in an arson attack. The jailhouse snitch has admitted he lied, and top scientists/investigators have not been able to find any reason to think the house fire was anything other than a freak accident.
694OQ Today I learned that after 10 years together and multiple gold records, when the Beatles broke up in 1970, both Paul & George were only 27 years old.
OGya4 TIL Ohio State University trademarked the word “the”