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TIL that “Who Goes There?”, the short story that was adapted into “The Thing”, was also adapted into a 1972 Spanish Horror Film named “Horror Express” starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.

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NXXEM TIL some experts believe Stonehenge was designed to line up perfectly with the sunrise on the summer solstice (21st June) as a symbol of fertility. The outer 'male' stone casts a phallic shadow that penetrates the inner stone circle and hits the recumbent ‘female’ altar stone.
ej1D TIL that the most successful pirate raid in history was Henry Avery’s capture of the Indian treasure ship Ganj-i-sawai in 1695. The plunder was £600,000 worth of jewels and precious metals, equivalent to £52.4 million or $81 million today.
ep4J6 TIL that during the filming of the original Star Wars, R2-D2 often functioned poorly, leading, among other things, to an accidental visit to the set of "Jesus of Nazareth "
4k4NR TIL after the 16th Governor of Hong Kong was given a particularly distasteful Cantonese name, that could interpreted as 'toilet bowl's shit', the government has since provided a very refined translation service for British officials so that their names are indistinguishable from the locals' names.
KPE TIL David Bowie plays guitar, piano, saxophone, harmonica, synthetizers, vibraphone, xylophone, koto, drums, viola and cello