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TIL the widely reported mass hysteria ensuing from 1973's The Exorcist is often exaggerated. Many instances of viewers fainting or leaving the cinema were not from the more gruesome possession scenes, but from an earlier medically-accurate scene where Regan gets blood drawn from her neck.

kOA1g TIL Central Park in New York is home to a 3500 year old Egyptian obelisk. Weighing 200 tons, it was gifted to the US in 1877 in gratitude for the US not interfering in Egyptian politics.
VpBk TIL Bill Murray does not have an agent or a manager. Instead he has a number to call and pitch him an idea via the voice mail. If he likes it he will call you back. The phone number is impossible to find. The only people who know it are people who already have worked with him.
WkKWB TIL about 36-year-old man who consumed so much dish detergent that he expelled "citrus smelling" foam from his mouth and anus and went into organ failure.
yQRGV TIL the state of Delaware was named for Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618). He introduced Pocahontas into English society. As governor-for-life of the Virginia Colony, he died at sea on his way to investigate claims of abuse in the colony and it is believed that he was poisoned.
Wk9ZY Today I learned Shia LaBeouf was so unpopular on the set of Fury for his antics (face cutting, tooth pulling, not washing to get into character) he was installed in a bed and breakfast away from the rest of the cast during filming