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TIL that after WWII there was an Italian group called the Democratic Fascist Party that once stole Mussolini’s body

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nWn8B TIL To get a convincing performance out of the boy that played the kidnapped child in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Spielberg&Co. wore gorilla and clown costumes off-camera to surprise him, and slowly opened presents to get his wide-eyed amazed reaction to seeing aliens in his kitchen.
DQB5J TIL Londons Stock Exchange was started in the 17th Century in a Coffee House in the City of London’s Change Alley
wLDQJ TIL of Felis nigripes: the African Black-footed Cat, aka "the deadliest cat on earth", weighing in at under 5 lbs. It kills 10 - 14 rodents or birds per night to satisfy its accelerated metabolism. The Black-footed Cat has a kill rate of 60%, whereas a lion's kill rate is about 25%.
XeP TIL That the “Soap Opera Effect” is caused by a higher rate of frames per second. Soap Opera’s look this way because it is cheaper to film on video.
x67rD TIL there is some chimpanzee populations that inhabit the savanna and act differently then the forest populations for example using caves, filtering drinking water, walking more on two legs than forest chimpz do and more. There is an Arte documentary on YouTube with them filtering water.