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TIL there is a tower made out of skulls in Serbia

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4X76b TIL Helen Keller was a librarian at public and college libraries including Drexel Institute and Columbia University and authored The Reader's Digest of Books.
j66vv TIL during the filming of “Friday the 13th” (1980), the film was shot over multiple locations in New Jersey in the summer of ‘79, one of them being a small town called Blairstown. It turned out that Lou Reed lived next door to the set, and he would sometimes visit & perform on the set of the film.
e7PL TIL that a couple took in three orphans and used them to get Extreme Makeover: Home Edition to build them a new house. After the house was built, they kicked the orphans out.
0wZJN TIL during the D-Day scene in Saving Private Ryan, the two surrendering "Germans," killed by American soldiers, were saying in Czech: "Please don't shoot me! I'm not German, I'm Czech, I didn't kill anyone!" The American soldiers jokingly translate it as "Look, I washed for supper!"
KObo6 TIL the Michelin Guide has excluded Los Angeles since 2009. Former Michelin Guide director Jean-Luc Naret said, “The people in Los Angeles are not real foodies. They are not too interested in eating well but just in who goes to which restaurant and where they sit.”