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TIL that prolific author Anne Perry was born Juliet Hulme, who with her best friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker’s mother in 1954

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7Ljp TIL of the dramatic device “Chekhov’s Gun”. “Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”
QA7M TIL In the early days of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said People who trusted him were “ Dumb fucks ”
OGo76 TIL of the “Taliesin Massacre” where Frank Lloyd Wright’s servant barricaded his home, lit it on fire, and killed 7 people with an axe
bY4 TIL that America’s first recorded student protest, the Great Butter Rebellion, was sparked by the cry ‘Behold, our butter stinketh! - give us therefore, butter that stinketh not.’
QYVL TIL An estimated 81 percent of people lie during a job interview