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TIL that there’s a plantation turned prison in Louisiana that looks straight out of the 1800’s making prisoners pick cotton while guards are on horseback

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9YpOG TIL in the 1946 movie It's A Wonderful Life when the pharmacist hits young George Baily (Bob Anderson) in anger and blood comes out of the child's ear, that was not a special effect. The pharmacist really smacked him so hard that the child's ear started bleeding.
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