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TIL of a man named Frank Amodeo who had a plan to become emperor of the world. He owned several private security firms employing 40,000 people, met with Bush in the white-house and regularly worked with intelligence agencies world wide. He was busted for tax fraud and he is currently in prison.

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m1mOy TIL that the Graflex FlashFlashstar is a type of lightsaber that was made famous by Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy. The Graflex FlashFlashstar was originally a 1920s-era photographic flashgun, which was modified and used as the basis for the lightsaber prop.
NoxN TIL that Stanley Kubrick forced Shelley Duvall to film the scene of her on the stairs during “The Shining” 127 times. Her misery wasn’t even her acting at that point.
64jZ TIL after X-raying a prayer book from the 13th century scientists discovered the pages had readable traces of an unknown work by Archimedes. The remarkable work book contained treatises on infinity written 2,000 years before anyone else thought up the concept.
PN0E TIL there’s a shrine in Bangkok to a naughty old beggar. After one man prayed at the shrine and won the lottery, he rewarded the beggar with a troupe of sexy dancers. Now people regularly bring dancers to the shrine to seek good fortune (with video)
m1Nrv TIL After the Royal London Wax Museum in Victoria BC closed in 2010, the museum's general manager kept more than 200 wax figures in his basement. Each one has medical grade glass eyes, real human hair, and Queen Victoria has a prominent spot at his dining table