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TIL 60% of people in the world don't have a toilet in their home

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1aMLd TIL The magician Harry Houdini had a younger brother named Theodore Hardeen. Hardeen was also a magician and billed himself as the "brother of Houdini." Hardeen was the first magician to conceive escaping from a straitjacket in full view of the audience.
a0nJ TIL that every miniature outfit you saw in the movie Coraline was hand-knitted by one woman.
4eWo TIL that in “The Shining” director Stanley Kubrick was able to film all of Danny Lloyd’s scenes without the six-year-old actor realizing he was in a horror movie.
LkZRv TIL the stereotype of Native Americans saying "how" as a greeting comes from the Anglicization of the Lakota word "háu", which was used by men to greet other men.
loXOG TIL of the theory that the "monster under the bed" is an evolutionary leftover from our hunter/gatherer days. "children would fear bedtime because of the threat of wild animals."