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D171Y TIL an actress from Scarface freaked out during a bloody scene. She went home & claimed she had seen something she shouldn’t have. Shortly afterwards, she disappeared & was never seen again.
xVG57 TIL much of Vivaldi’s music was originally performed by an all-female orchestra at the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage and music school for girls in Venice.
LQQMP TIL in 1999 actor Rebecca Jackson Mendoza survived a stroke caused by a severed aorta after being stabbed in the heart by her husband. By 2005 she made a full recovery and was able to play Breha Organa in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
xV7Qg TIL that the White House was renovated between 1949 and 1952 and that historian refer to this period as "The Truman Reconstruction"
EQpw TIL that the DFW Airport is larger than the entire island of Manhattan.