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TIL that Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan and The Wrestler were originally supposed to be one movie about an affair between an obsessed ballet dancer and a burnt out wrestler. He eventually realized it was way too much story and split them, doing The Wrestler about 10 years later

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rROpx TIL Walter Jackson Freeman II, creator of the "icepick" lobotomy, performed as many as 4,000 surgeries in 23 states despite the fact that he had no formal surgical training. Up to 40% of Freeman's patients were gay individuals subjected to a lobotomy in order to change their homosexual orientation.
D1KZY TIL Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans. The most important tenet is that a young child needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally.
0d9aR TIL that the Gorrilaz hit, Clint Eastwood, has an iconic beat taken from a default preset on an Omnichord
6Exlw TIL there is a Japanese village that hunts, raises and eats Wasps. They hold an annual festival, the Kushihara Hebo Matsuri, where people compete on 'Heaviest Wasp Nest'.
0wwoA TIL while filming The Wizard of Oz, 16-year-old Judy Garland was put on a strict diet that included smoking 80 cigarettes a day to suppress her appetite.