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TIL Mark Hamill's laughter as the Joker was based on his Mozart laughter when he played the title role in Amadeus on Broadway.

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VB0VB TIL that there are less than 20 Jewish people living in Egypt.
x6XZ0 TIL the sack of Constantinople in 1453 and subsequent closure of the Silk Road by the Ottoman Empire was a main motivator of Europe to seek a western route to Asia
wL9dM TIL In 1997, an American co., RiceTec obtained a patent for a strain of rice never historically grown in America — “Basmati”. They achieved this by crossbreeding India’s native plant with a US long rice variety & then claimed exclusive rights over any basmati hybrid grown in the western hemisphere.
9YmXr TIL The Talking Heads only had ONE top 10 hit: Burning Down the House. Once in a Lifetime didn’t even make the top 100.
PYLaL TIL in 2004, Sylvia Browne, a psychic, told the mother of a Cleveland kidnapping victim (Amanda Berry) on the Montel Williams Show her daughter was dead. In 2006, the mother passed away without ever knowing her daughter was still alive and being held captive.