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TIL that the sadistic captain of the guard in The Shawshank Redemption is also the voice actor for Mr Krabs

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rXyW TIL that there is a species of pig called “Mangalitsa” which has wool on it which resembles that of a sheep
4kDL5 TIL In the opening prologue of Persona, Ingmar Bergman's 1966 arthouse film classic, the director inserted three frames (about 1/6th of a second) of an erect penis. This was excised from the American and British releases.
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M7jKa TIL Julian of Norwich was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress
pYWp8 TIL that salamanders tend to live inside rotting logs. When these logs are burned as firewood, the salamanders try to escape. This led to beliefs that salamanders were born from flames, or had abilities to resist and quench fires.