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TIL for the censorship case against Ulysses (a notoriously hard novel to read), the US trial judge forced himself read the entire book so he could judge it properly

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47g6 TIL that the infamous “chestburster” scene in “Alien” was inspired by a screenwriter’s struggle with Crohn’s disease, a inflammatory bowel disease that made him feel like something was trying to punch its way out of his chest.
7royP TIL a Palestinian Businessman operates a smuggling business to deliver KFC from Egypt to the Gaza Strip through a secret underground tunnel
E1MOo TIL that blood donors in Sweden get a text message thanking them for their donation each time their blood is given to a patient. The program was started in an attempt to recruit and retain new donors.
d6V7 TIL The movie “The 13th Warrior”(1999), starring Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif, bombed and was panned so critically that Sharif temporarily retired from acting
Me580 TIL that Italian hand gestures were born to communicate with someone that spoke a different dialect. Italy has in fact 34 major dialects that are very different from each other and in the past the "standard Italian" was not used.