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TIL Nicolas Cage bought a house in New Orleans in which a serial killer tortured and murdered a few dozen people

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nDDB TIL that in 1946 Kodak customers complained about film developing cloudy. Kodak investigated & found the corn husks used for packing was radioactive. They discovered something that was not public knowledge; the packaging was exposed to fallout from the world’s first nuclear bomb explosion.
78e67 TIL Bananas are the world's oldest fruit
PVeZ TIL that the silent horror film “The Unknown” (1927) was missing for many years in the archives of Cinematheque Francaise because they had hundreds of film cans marked “unknown”.
MW4V TIL Princess Diana stated her bulimia started “the week after we got engaged.” “My husband put his hand on my waistline and said: ‘Oh, a bit chubby here, aren’t we?’ and that triggered off something in me.“
wLKPJ TIL the Nazi greeting was so widespread in Germany by the mid-1930s that department store employees greeted customers with, "Heil Hitler, how may I help you?"