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TIL that pigeons, sort of, produce milk

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vxy4 TIL To get Jack Nicholson in the right agitated mood in “The Shining”, movie director Stanley Kubrick fed Jack Nicholson only cheese sandwiches, which he hates.
AN7Bd Today I learned that the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, were second cousins. So they needed a papal dispensation for their marriage.
X4p8 TIL that a commercial 1989 laptop had a multitasking graphical OS and full office suite, SSD storage and a 60 hour battery life as well as featuring hot-swappable batteries and instant suspend/resume.
9Y0JM TIL the moon is shaped like an egg!
J19ZB TIL that 'Coma' (1978) so scared audiences that organ donations in cities dropped by up to 60% that year. The film, in which patients are killed for body parts, also caused people to ask hospitals to buy or sell organs; the Eye Bank received 24 offers to sell eyes for $5-10,000.