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TIL Greenpeace permamently damaged the Nazca Lines during a PR stunt

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w17M TIL of H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, who built a hotel full of hidden rooms and trap doors in order to kill visitors. He had 9 confirmed kills, confessed to 27, and is estimated to have killed up to 200 people.
LGWd TIL Owen Wilson was replaced by Matthew McConaughey in Tropic Thunder after Wilson’s trouble with major depression
MeO7A TIL that the originally Irish name prefix “Mc” means “son” and “O’” means “descendant of”
7rKxX TIL that Willem Dafoe had to have a penis double for the scenes in Lars von Trier's experimental film Antichrist where his penis was exposed because his own was deemed so large that "everybody [on set] got very confused when they saw it" by the director.
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