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TIL in order to test the “shock value” of the corpse featured in “Psycho”, Hitchcock placed it inside Janet Leigh’s dressing room and listened to how loud she screamed when she found it.

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ADX0o TIL that a German carpenter named Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Hitler in November 1939, only one month into WWII. His bomb, hidden at a speech venue, went off successfully but failed to kill Hitler, who had finished his speech and left early.
Rmyj TIL forensic scientists reconstructed what Jesus the historical figure probably would have looked like (spoiler: not white)
grOnA TIL the F150 is 79.9 inches wide because trucks over 80 inches need commercial truck identification lights. These lights can be seen on the Ford Raptor front grill for example. (Raptor is +86 inches wide)
9YwNX TIL about the Great Filter, a theory that suggests the reason we haen't found life in space is because they don't pass through a part of their evolution known as the Great Filter, which wipes out the species. Worse, humans won't know if we pass through the filter until it'd be too late to save us.
gde8 TIL that the IRS had to use a special computer to process Bill Gates’ taxes because “their normal computers can’t deal with the numbers.”