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TIL At one point Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' and Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment' were being serialized in the same Russian magazine

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ANmZw TIL Anthony Bourdain called “Ratatouille” “simply the best food movie ever made.” This was due to details like the burns on cooks’ arms, accurate to working in restaurants. He said they got it “right” and understood movie making. He got a Thank You credit in the film for notes he provided early on.
gYPW TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.
b6xkZ TIL a Maine Dairy company lost a Five Million Dollar lawsuit because of a missing Oxford Comma.
dDmo9 TIL about actor Jonathan Kendrick Lewis who was arrested three times between 2011 and 2012. In September 2012, he bludgeoned his landlady and her cat to death before falling off the roof of her house where he had been renting accommodation.
KYE7G TIL At age 90, Hugh Hefner's weight dropped to 90lbs and he made visitors sign a confidentiality agreement to see him. He was so sick that he missed his own Playboy Mansion parties and always needed a group of nurses everywhere