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TIL Eisenhower, despite his military background, pursued a non-autocratic decision making method as President, which relied on listening to diverse views and then relentlessly pursuing common ground between his advisers.

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8ex6a TIL a flashback scene in the cult favourite sci-fi horror Event Horizon was much longer, used pornstars as the cast, would be illegal to shoot today, was stripped from the movie by the producers and is considered lost because it was not archived for later use in a Director's Cut
rZGy TIL after escaping an Australian prison, 6 starving convicts cannibalized the dying men 1 by 1 til the last survivor was captured. He escaped jail again with 1 man, then killed & ate him despite having other food left, saying human meat was “delicious” & better than fish or pork
WWQB TIL that a water treatment plant was home to 107 million spiders.
vPbA8 TIL The 1984 UK parliamentary by election in Chesterfield was contested by 17 parties as diverse as the acne party, the Elvisly yours party, the I am not a number party, the Welshman party, the monster raving looney party and the reclassify the Sun newspaper as a comic party.
xdJ0 TIL GZA of Wu Tang Clan has given science and music lectures at MIT, Harvard and NYU