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TIL That by taping ping pong balls over your eyes, sitting under a red light and listening to white noise you can experience hallucinations.

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QJbek TIL that in 2008 a conman named Bill Jakob swindled the small town of Gerald , Missouri & tricked the police department into thinking he was an FBI Agent and doing drug busts. After he was caught, the town was sued for $7.25M and Brad Pitt’s production company thought about making this into a movie
4kam5 TIL The movie Footloose, which is about a town where dancing is prohibited, is inspired from a real town, Elmore City, Oklahoma. The ban started before statehood, and high-schoolers petitioned in 1980 to be able to dance at prom
VBYWQ TIL In 2010, the Russian Navy ordered the repair of a nuclear battlecruiser at a cost of $11 million dollars. Prosecutors later revealed that the actual cost of this work should have been $8 million and the other $3 million was stolen. As was discovered later, no repair work was carried at all.
jk1Q TIL that John Cusack once asked his agent to present him with the “craziest, most unproduceable script you can find.” His agent presented “Being John Malkovich”. Impressed with the script, Cusack auditioned and won a role in the film
l7gVA TIL that the Sebastopol Bell in Windsor was looted from a Russian church during the Siege of Sebastopol in 1855 at the end of the Crimean War, and it is only rung when the most senior members of the British royal family pass away