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TIL Judy Garland was very close with the dog who played Toto, even letting the pup stay at her house while healing from an on-set accident. She attempted to purchase Toto but the owner wouldn’t sell

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GA9gQ TIL Werner Sombart, the economist who invented the term ‘late stage Capitalism’ was a supporter of the Nazis, and praised them in his book ‘Deutscher Sozialismus’
4XBp6 TIL That there is a family in italy named Marsili which can not feel pain due to a genetic mutation. Family members can suffer burns and broken bones while feeling virtually no pain and they do not need any sort of anesthesia during surgery
W7LnY TIL that average cumulus cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kilograms. That's about the same as 40 school buses.
NoxN TIL that Stanley Kubrick forced Shelley Duvall to film the scene of her on the stairs during “The Shining” 127 times. Her misery wasn’t even her acting at that point.
Y7ZjZ TIL that The nucleus is very small compared to the size of the atom. As an analogy, if the atom where the size of a baseball stadium, then the nucleus would be smaller than a baseball, perhaps closer to the size of a ping pong ball. Most of atom is, in fact, empty space.