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TIL Henry Kissinger is 100 years old

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m9BO TIL that to get into character when playing the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a motel room for 43 days straight. This allowed him to feel isolated and alone with his thoughts, helping him perfect the crazed. psychopathic Joker that we all ended up seeing on screen.
GDRE TIL: Before video game addiction, people were blaming Dungeons and Dragons for suicide and teen satanism.
4kX85 TIL Pavlov's dog experiment was widely misunderstood because of mistranslation and misconstruction. Pavlov never used a bell to condition dogs to salivate, because a bell was an imprecise control. Instead he used tones, duration of tones and electric shock to study physiological reflexes.
ep7Gn TIL about Don Arrigo Beccari, a WW2 Catholic Priest, who was responsible for smuggling 120 Jewish children to safety, despite intense Nazi surveillance. When the Nazis captured him and tortured him for months, he still kept quiet. He was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1964.
R5vbl TIL a French town has a law that prohibits UFOs from flying over or landing within its territory.