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TIL Neither Director Ridley Scott nor screenwriter David Webb Peoples read Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" on which "Blade Runner" is based.

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9wNGB TIL Tobe Hooper, director of the 1974 movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre, hoped for a rating of “PG” due to the “limited amount of gore”.
NmrM TIL a reporter who wrote stories about a serial killer was actually the serial killer himself - and he later allegedly committed suicide by drowning himself in a bucket of water
69Lp8 TIL that during the salem witch trials, none of the people who actually confessed of being a witch were executed. All 19 who WERE executed of being a witch refused to confess.
wL6rP TIL: In 1814 more than a hundred thousand gallons of beer burst onto the streets of London when a vat broke. This beer Flood Killed Eight People.
VMgnk TIL ruts leftover from the wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trial, are still visible today.