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TIL there are seven naked ladies on the poster of Silence of the Lambs

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xvQg TIL in 1976 a film crew went to the haunted house in a California amusement park to shoot footage for a popular tv show. They discovered a hanging body that they thought was a mannequin… turns out it was a real person who had been dead and circulating in various carnivals for over sixty years
DZWe TIL there’s a ship that’s designed to turn its bow up into the air, while the rest of the ship submerges, turning it into a buoy.
dKxj TIL that the clocks in Grand Central Station (NY) run a minute fast to help passengers make their trains.
VB0NQ TIL Haitian-American Joe Gaetjens, the sole goal-scorer in the upset victory over England in the 1950 World Cup, would later be kidnapped by Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier's secret police. He was taken to a prison notorious for torture and never heard of again until confirmed dead in 1972.
YpjX7 TIL that Nicholas White, a Business Week employee, spent 41 hours trapped in an elevator, even though he signaled an alarm, and there was surveillance video inside the elevator cab