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TIL that critic Pauline Kael did not like rewatching movies. She felt that one viewing was enough to ‘get it’ and that watching a film repeatedly would make her hate it.

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pnNZ TIL that Nazi eugenics programs were inspired by the United States. Decades before Hitler came to power, forced sterilization and marriage restrictions were law in 27 states. Hitler was so impressed that he called books written by American eugenicists “his bible”.
M776a TIL after filming of the restauraunt scene in the 1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life", hundreds of pounds of fake vomit had to be cleaned up on short notice as a wedding was booked at the same venue hours later.
E8N0 TIL Morocco has the oldest operating university. Older than Oxford, it was founded by a woman in 859 AD.
NX5dE TIL of Charles Hawtrey who starred in the popular and lewd Carry On Films. Hawtrey was frequently drunk, and would swear and rip up the paper of those who asked him for autographs. Even as he lay dying, he threw a vase at a nurse who was a fan.
9YMKG TIL György Dózsa was executed extremelly cruelly. They made him sit on a heated iron throne and wear a heated iron crown. Then they made his rebel soldiers bite and eat his flesh while priests were singing songs.