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TIL that uppon its release, “The Shining” was nominated for The Razzies including worst actress for Shelley Duvall and worst director for Stanley Kubrick

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X8Or TIL the word “umbrage,” i.e. “take umbrage” (take offense) is from the Latin “umbra,” or parasol, and used to be a synonym for “shade.” “He took umbrage at the suggestion” literally = someone was throwing shade at him.
jZKE TIL the shortest commercial flight is between two islands in Scotland and can take as little as 47 seconds.
WkLEY TIL 90% of Chinese teenagers and young adults suffer from myopia (short-sightedness), up from 10-20% 60 years ago
Bk6y TIL while on trial for treason the lawyer of Michel Ney, one of Napoleon’s marshals, argued that French courts could not try Ney because he was Prussian since his hometown had been annexed by Prussia. Ney ruined the defense by interrupting, “I am French and will remain French.” Ney was executed.
9Y8bG TIL All of those warring states near the beginning of the Old Testament were actually very small and only encompass what is now modern Israel