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TIL While filming "Orca" actor Richard Harris read a tabloid magazine that photographed his wife Ann Turkel on a beach with a younger man. He wanted to stop filming, fly to Malibu and kill them both. Harris relented when he got into a brawl with the film's screenwriter and gave him a black eye.

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PYOve TIL about The Man in the Red Bandana, Welles Crowther, an equities trader who is credited with saving as many as 18 people in the south tower on 9/11 before losing his own life in the collapse. Every year his Alma Mater Boston College honors him during a football game by wearing red bandanas.
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ZpG9D TIL: Holy water in a container can be topped up with unholy water. As long as the added water doesn’t exceed 50%, the whole container is still considered holy water.
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