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TIL in Werner Herzog's 1979 film Nosferatu the Vampyre, the opening sequence featured real mummified bodies.

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R5gJ6 TIL Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is believed to have been made dictator of Rome on two separate occasions. On both occasions Cincinnatus quickly dealt with the problem at hand and resigned after 15 days in 458 BC and 21 days in 439 BC.
lQAN TIL that whenever acclaimed author Douglas Adams faced writer’s block, he reminded himself that he was the only student ever to be awarded a “10/10” in creative writing by his teacher, Frank Halford.
kJOkW TIL Auntie Anne's pretzels started in Pennsylvania, and is a woman run company.
69wr7 TIL that on 10 December 1901, Wilhelm Röntgen received the first Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering X-rays. He refused to give a Nobel lecture, refused to patent the discovery, and even refused to name the rays after himself - yet many countries still call X-rays Röntgenstrahlen.
4kgR6 TIL William Bratton, who popularized the "broken windows theory" to curb crime, is the only person to have led the police departments of the two largest US cities — New York and Los Angeles.