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TIL while shooting for Deliverance (1972), Burt Reynolds insisted on doing a stunt by himself instead of a dummy. During the stunt, he got injured and his clothes came off. Waking up in hospital, he asked the director what it looked like, who said, "It looked like a dummy falling over a waterfall.'

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VMDa4 TIL when Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson Family in 1969, Roman Polanski briefly suspected Bruce Lee of having committed the murder, due to a pair of eyeglasses found at the crime scene followed by a comment Bruce Lee made to Roman Polanski about how he had lost his own eyeglasses.
PGRg TIL that the reason almost all public restrooms have what are called open front toilet seats, (u-shaped), is to “allow women to wipe the perineal area after using the toilet without contacting the seat".
a8dy TIL: Shindler’s list is banned in Indonesia for being “sympathetic to the Jewish cause”
oBJmA TIL There are penguins that participate in prostitution. They perform sexual acts in exchange for pebbles. However, sometimes they will bait the male into thinking they’ll have sex, but then just run off with the pebble.
b6JbQ TIL Heroin was a patent by the Bayer Company and Cocaine was a trademark of the Merck Company.