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TIL in the scene where Jack Nicholson smashes down the door with an axe in ‘The Shining,’ the prop team used a weakened one so it would be easier to break. But Nicholson had previously been volunteer fire marshal and broke through the door so easily the prop team was forced to make a stronger door.

5Y6j9 TIL There are no reports throughout history of any one finding buried treasure, pirate or not. "In reality, pirates burying treasure was rare. Buried treasure is a literary trope commonly associated with depictions of pirates, criminals, and Old West outlaws. "
e0xng TIL that some experts theorize John F. Kennedy might not have lived out his term, even if he hadn't been assassinated. He suffered from Addison's disease, and would have likely been bedridden or dead by 1965 or 1966.
ADk1a TIL Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States, passed the eye exam needed to enter the National Guard by memorizing the eye chart due to his poor eyesight
x6mGg TIL M&Ms were created in 1941 after Forest Mars, Mars Company heir saw soldiers in the spanish civil war eating smarties (British M&Ms) and noticed the hard coloured shell stopped the chocolate inside melting. This property made them attractive to the US army who was the sole customer during WW2
9wNN7 TIL that, in the 1940s, Coca-Cola produced a clear version of Coke for Soviet officials that looked like vodka so they could drink it in public despite embargoes on American goods