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TIL Margaret Atwood's popular novel "The Handmaid's Tale," was first adapted into a film back in 1990.

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XEyR6 TIL The so-called "Dancing Doctor", who filmed "instructional" music videos during surgery had her license suspended for 2 1/2 years in 2018 after several patients were severely scarred (one was brain damaged) and it was discovered that she was a dermatologist and not a board certified surgeon.
PYoZZ TIL that there is still a passenger ocean liner in operation. The Queen Mary 2 offers a regular service from New York City and Southampton, England. It is the only passenger ocean liner in service designed primarily for travel, rather than the leisure of a cruise ship.
l11K TIL Denzel Washington subjected himself to being waterboarded for his role in the film, “Safe House”
d8OO8 TIL that Barry George, the man wrongly convicted of the murder of UK television presenter Jill Dando, was denied compensation as a victim of miscarriage of justice for the 8 years he spent in prison as a judge deemed that he was “not innocent enough to be compensated”.
7Lvp TIL that Volvo engineer Niels Bohlin invented the three point seatbelt, but Volvo gave away the patent to other manufacturers because it had more value as a free life saving tool.