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TIL After filming Child's Play, original Chucky animatronic was stripped and re-used as the Crypt Keeper

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LQEmd TIL the 1986 film "Space Camp" was famous for being a marketing nightmare, being released shortly after the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.
VBBXD TIL that Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - Queen Victoria’s goddaughter was also a suffragette and therefore marked as a danger to the state.
jb9p TIL of a man who invented flexible glass. After the Emperor tested his claim he swore that only he knew the technique. Emperor Tiberius then had the inventor beheaded fearing that such a material would undermine the value of gold and silver.
ZYXY TIL a natural gas vent in Iraq known as The Eternal Fire has been burning continuously for over 4,000 years, and is mentioned by Herodotus, Plutarch, and in the Old Testament’s Book of Daniel
eyQL TIL eating mangoes prior to smoking marijuana increases it’s effects by making the high stronger and last longer.