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TIL that Frankenstein was the name of the scientist: the creature had no name, and was called as 'thing', 'fiend', 'spectre', 'demon' or 'ogre'

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0dmKR TIL in 2005 graffiti artist David Choe was offered $60,000 to paint murals at Facebook headquarters. He chose to take the compensation in stock. Eventually being worth more than $200,000,000.
yQVQa TIL that nomadic families owning less than 100 animals in Mongolia are considered to live in poverty
Z8jR4 TIL about William Castle, a producer /director know for his unusual promotional gimmicks, such as wiring theater seats to vibrate and shake during the climax of his movie and setting up a booth for people to get refunds during a movie’s “Fright Break” if they were too scared to see the ending
lwdG TIL: Jim Jarmusch was dismayed to discover all the money he paid for the rights to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” went to the record company, with nothing going to Hawkins himself. When the film (Stranger Than Paradise) earned a profit, he tracked down Hawkins to give him some money
9Ynvp TIL anthropologists consider society’s reaction to human sex trafficking to be a “moral panic,” with inflated data points and well-publicized “horror stories” that have little basis in reality.