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TIL Edgar Allen Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” (1838) had an eerily coincidence with an incident 46 years after it was published, a yacht sank in real life and 3 of the 4 survivors also decided to eat the cabin boy…named Richard Parker.

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ADREd TIL, of the Nonseum in Austria, a museum for intentionally useless inventions. Items on display include a cigarette with a filter on both ends.
8Gea TIL Linda Hamilton actually picked the locks on her harness and on the door in the mental hospital in Terminator 2
Zp5MQ TIL The film 'A Few Good Men' was inspired by a real life story. Aaron Sorkin's sister told him she signed up to work with the U. S. Navy JAG Corps and was defending a group of marines who nearly killed a fellow marine in a hazing ordered by a superior officer.
1alWX TIL At a specific spot at the Teotihuacan Pyramids clapping creates bird sounds.
d8Zdr TIL of the SS Pacific, a trans-Atlantic steamer that disappeared on a routine voyage between Liverpool and New York in 1856. In 1861, a message in a bottle released by a doomed passenger describing the ship sinking due to icebergs washed ashore in the Hebrides- solving the mystery.