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TIL: Jennifer Jason Leigh's Father was Vic Morrow, who was accidentally killed while filming The Twilight Zone Movie.

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9wvjM TIL that in 2015 a 46 yr-old woman accidentally took 55 mg intranasally of pure LSD, equal to 550x the normal recreational dosage. She "blacked out" for the first 12 hours and felt "pleasantly high" for the second 12. A day later her chronic foot pain ceased, helping her to end her morphine habit.
4XyM5 TIL Bruce Willis appearance on Friends "came from a bet he made with Matthew Perry on the set of their film Whole Nine Yards" and that he would appear for free.
4rpN TIL in Netherlands, there is an actual word for whipping out one’s penis and hitting something with it. And in 2008, it was voted word of the year.
vZl7 TIL after “Terminator Salvation” the owners attempted to auction off the rights to the Terminator franchise for $60 to $70 million. The sole bid was from Joss Whedon, who offered $10,000.
0kpv TIL that MLK Jr.’s family conducted a civil case to consider the existence of an assassination conspiracy involving the Memphis police as well as federal agencies. They won.