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TIL It is considered bad luck to say the word "Macbeth" in a theater production, which is why production's refer to it as "The Scottish Play"

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Y7Vx7 TIL there's an annual 3100 mile ultra-marathon race in which runners run around a city block in Queens, NY for 5649 laps. The record finish is a little over 40 days.
5YveQ TIL: many enemies in the Dark Souls games were inspired by the manga Berserk. Upon an interview with Hidetaka Miyazaki, many characters and mobs, like Siegmayer and Artorias, were heavily inspired upon in both art style and fighting style, by their Berserk inspirations, Bazuso and Guts himself.
kJlvB TIL FBI added Oppenheimer to its Custodial Detention Index, for arrest in case of national emergency after they found that Oppenheimer was on the executive committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, which it considered a communist front.
ANlYn TIL The last decade of Mary Shelley's life was dogged by illness, most likely caused by the brain tumour which killed her at age 53.
x6ybo TIL that each of the five wealthiest men were to spend a million US dollars daily, they would take 476 years to exhaust their combined wealth