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TIL that Crystal Lake, Iowa is home of the worlds largest Bullhead Statue.

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D1d8g TIL in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick intentionally isolated Shelley Duvall and argued with her often. Duvall was forced to perform the iconic and exhausting baseball bat scene 127 times. Afterwards, Duvall presented Kubrick with clumps of hair that had fallen out due to the extreme stress of filming.
R5BVa TIL the reason Roy Scheider ad-libbed the line “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” in Jaws was because it had become a catchphrase on set for anytime anything went wrong. It was directed at two "stingy producers" because the support boat that steadied the barge with the filming equipment was too tiny.
4k99R TIL that in 2022 two Californians filed a class action lawsuit against Barilla pasta because they thought it was made in Italy. They argue they suffered financial harm because they would not have bought it if they knew it was made in the US. The combined total they spent was $6.
04Mv TIL all that remains of Shakespeare’s handwriting are six signatures, none of which are spelt ‘Shakespeare’.
Brgwy TIL President Harry S. Truman had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that said, "The Buck Stops Here."