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TIL the axe used by Jack Nicholson to chop through the door in The Shining was sold at auction in 2019 for $209,000. A crew member purchased it originally from the production company at the conclusion of filming with the intention of using it to chop wood.

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nW0B TIL that in Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger didn’t want to say the line “I’ll be back,” as he thought it sounded too feminine
p8xRZ TIL: Tobey Maguire's Dad was a bankrobber in 1993
p8wVO TIL Henry Ford helped industrialize charcoal briquette production with Ford Charcoal, which later became Kingsford
69dNX TIL of Choo Ba'ak - Day of the Dead tradition from Pomuch, Mexico where the bones of dead relatives are removed from their graves and get cleaned.
X0GDj TIL that the army built a tunnel to drain Spirit Lake, to relieve water pressure against a natural dam created by the eruption of Mount St. Helens. If the tunnel fails - and it will - the dam will fail and a 40-foot wave will race down the valley, all the way to Kelso, WA, on the Columbia river.