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TIL that during the Black Dahlia case The Los Angeles Examiner (owned by Hearst) scooped the victim's personal details by lying to her mother, saying her daughter had won a beauty contest rather than been murdered.

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7RDX TIL that in the iconic door-smashing scene in The Shining, Kubrick originally had a prop door in place. Jack Nicholson, who had worked as a volunteer fire marshal, got through it too quickly, so it was replaced with a real door.
Br6oD TIL about cooping, a type of electoral fraud where voters were "cooped" up, given enough alcohol to make them complacent, and tricked into voting for specific candidates.
yVdZJ TIL that Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil could speak and write in Portuguese, Latin, French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Chinese, Occitan and the now-extinct Tupi language.
xVVOB TIL of the Nationality Rooms. 30 classrooms in the University of Pittsburgh that are each built as a museum grade representation of a different country's culture.
YpyJP TIL: The first documented use of toilet paper is from the 6th century in medieval China. By the early 14th century, they were manufacturing toilet paper at the rate of 10 million packages.