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TIL - There’s nudity in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Mind = stunned

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brwN TIL during the filming of ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’, production designer Ken Adam called up his old boss Stanley Kubrick for advice on how to light the inside of an enormous tanker ship, the villain’s secret lair. Kubrick snuck in on a Sunday morning for four hours to set the lighting up himself.
gM7m7 TIL that after poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti's wife died, he buried the bulk of his unpublished poems with her in a fit of grief. However, he later changed his mind, had her dug up, and published the poems.
Pg0w TIL that the opposite of a euphemism (a more pleasant term for an unpleasant thing) is called a dysphemism. For example, “took a dirt nap” instead of “died.”
R7KQ TIL Will Smith actually has a home in Bel-Air
8eE6K TIL that "cooties" comes from WWI slang for body lice. American English caught cooties when veterans returned home in the 1920s