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TIL Director Eli Roth brought a TV with him to the Peruvian jungle to show villagers the movie ‘Cannibal Holocaust’ - It was the first movie they’d ever seen and they loved it

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L8LP TIL that the writer of Peter Pan (J.M.Barrie) had a brother named David (his mother’s favorite) who died at the age of 12. Barrie’s mother found comfort in the fact that her dead son would remain a boy forever, never to grow up and leave her. This is why the children in his story do not grow old.
bNjj TIL in 2014 Budweiser attempted to trademark the sound of a beer can opening
xVNgB TIL The Antonov A-40 was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane. The tank had to be stripped most of it's armament, ammunition and headlights, however the prototype still failed.
x9v7 TIL that there is almost no correlation between cell phone connection quality and “bars” of service.
ADLDa TIL Tomomasa Nakagawa, a former doctor sentenced to death in 2011 for his involvement in VX and sarin attacks, including the 1995 sarin attack on Tokyo’s subway system, determined that Kim Jong Nam was attacked with VX before the announcement from Malaysian authorities.