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TIL both Scarface movies (1983 & 1932) were based on a book by Armitage Trail, who was 28 years old and died suddenly of a heart attack just nine months after the novel was published.

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gM1YA TIL of "Happy Tail Syndrome." This condition occurs when particularly happy and boisterous dogs manage to damage the end of their tail through excessive wagging which causes it to bang repeatedly against hard household features like walls and doors.
kJ1GB TIL of the Greek god Dionysus (created circa 1,300BC) had a mythology so similar to Jesus the two shared multiple nicknames, origin fables, death fables, "profession," and even being "a sacred king killed and eaten in an eucharistic ritual for fecundity and purification."
5Y8Zp TIL Brazil has the largest population of Japanese people globally, besides Japan itself.
xV9DD TIL About Setenil de las Bodegas, a Spanish city built under a large rock that hangs over it
xVAND TIL the stereotype of a witch riding a broomstick may come from historic witches straddling hallucinogenic substance-coated brooms naked to apply the drugs to their vaginas