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TIL Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man

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d8BXQ TIL in the film Tomorrow Is Forever, child actress Natalie Wood was unable to cry on cue, until her mother tore a butterfly to pieces in front of her to ensure she would sob. Her co-star, Orson Welles, called Wood a born professional, "so good, she was terrifying."
KB69 TIL there is a restaurant chain called “Dick’s Last Resort,” where the servers are instructed to be obnoxious and to treat their customers poorly by not giving them any napkins, and then throwing them at them when they ask for some.
7OMb TIL that after Disney released “Princess and the Frog”, over 50 children were hospitalized with salmonella from kissing frogs.
pYm1p TIL long after abandoning their cities the Mayan people still exist as a distinct group, and make up 40 percent of Guatemala's population
pYj1A TIL about Wilusa, a city in northwest Anatolia referenced in several Hittite records, which some believe to be another name for the city of Troy.