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TIL when Hannibal Lecter said “I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti” it was a clue he was off his medications as none of those items can be consumed while on MAOIs, a drug given for various mental disorders

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QJBna TIL the 1959 film "The Tingler" was about a parasite that causes tingling sensations in victims. The films producers rigged surplus WWII aircraft motors to random theater seats, so viewers would "feel the tingler" when it attacked. Some viewers were also paid to pretend to scream and faint
LQnV TIL a star named s2 has the fastest known ballistics orbit; it orbits Sagittarius A at 11,000,000mph (2% of the speed of light) and it is also accelerating.
neDn9 TIL Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He earned enough money to buy his freedom at age 27. The following year he married his wife Tina and purchased her freedom as well.
XEb8D TIL That a woman joined a missing person's search party, only to discover that she was in fact searching for herself
4mo TIL Rockstar Games (Max Payne, GTA, etc) has purposely avoided making any First Person Shooters, claiming Max Payne 3 is the closest