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TIL the car-accident scene in the movie Hereditary was inspired by a real accident

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Pbre TIL a family-owned coffee roaster won a patent infringment suit brought against them by Keurig; The next day they counter-sued for violations of antitrust and unfair competition laws.
wL66M TIL In a scene of Jojo Rabbit (2019), “Heil Hitler” is said 31 times in one minute! According to writer/director Taika Waititi, he wanted a funny moment, but also wanted to illustrate how ridiculous Nazi protocols were.
E1Bno TIL about the Peak-End Rule – a cognitive bias whereby we tend to judge and remember an experience/event on the basis of how we felt at its 'peaks' (intense positive or negative moments) and at its 'end' (the final moments) rather than the sum total of all the moments of the experience/event.
gMEQb TIL Primatology pioneer Dian Fossey, determined to save the nearly-extinct Mountain Gorillas waged a war against poachers: she led armed patrols, burned their huts, arrested and placed bounties on poachers and convinced the locals that she practiced black magic, in order to scare them away
6QAm TIL a British cabinet minister was almost given the job title of “PENIS”: the Productivity, Energy and Industry Secretary