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TIL The set used for Amity Island in Jaws (1975) was later used as Cabot Cove on Murder She Wrote.

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R7XY7 TIL that Lord Krishna (Hinduism) changed himself to his feminine form Mohini and slept with Aravan who sacrificed himself in the war and granted three wishes. It is from Aravan’s lineage after his association with Krishna’s female form that the transgenders are said to have been born.
ywwl TIL: A species of Japanese crab evolved to have a shell resembling the face of a samurai warrior. Those crabs survived better because fisherman admired them and threw them back in the ocean.
rNn0e TIL the Prince song 1999 was inspired by a documentary on Nostradamus and is about an imagined party during the end of the world.
m1RDx TIL After Machiavelli's works were placed on the first Papal index of prohibited books, his family challenged the decision. The church eventually offered them to allow publication of a censored version of his works, with the author's name suppressed. His grandsons indignantly rejected the offer
ovm8 TIL The Philadelphia Police Department fired over 10,000 rounds and dropped a bomb on a house in West Philly on May 13, 1985. The bomb caught fire and burned down 65 homes, anyone attempting to escape the fire was shot at by police. 6 adults and 5 children were killed, only 2 people survived.