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TIL that Bless the Harts and King of the Hill take place in the same universe despite different artstyles

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WkrOL TIL the masked ball song in Eyes Wide Shut is Romanian Orthodox Divine Liturgy played backwards
kOwLW TIL Germany controlled 80% of the world cocaine market in the 1920s
vN6B TIL During IBM Watson’s Jeapordy Game, it stored all 15 terabytes of it’s knowledge in RAM, including every page of Wikipedia in existence.
b6ebp TIL in 1982 for a film named Fitzcarraldo, director Werner Herzog had the cast drag a 320-ton steamship over a steep hill: to depict real life events. Under the threat of death, Carlos Fitzcarrald forced indigenous workers to transport a 30 ton ship over a mountain to get to another river in 1894.
l7XWG TIL that as President-Elect, US Pres. James Buchanan improperly wrote to a Supreme Court justice asking him to vote pro-slavery in the Dred Scott case. The court would rule 7-2 that Scott was a possession, not a person, and denied his petition for freedom