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TIL That the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network were played by the same guy. His face was digitally grafted to his body doubles after each scene was filmed

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LQLPd TIL The novel Maltese Falcon got its name from the tribute of one falcon per year that the Knight Hospitallers, a Catholic military order founded during the crusade, had to provide to the monarchs of Sicily in exchange for getting the island of Malta. It went on continuously from 1530 to 1798.
Vwa4 TIL that female bedbugs don’t have vaginas and that male bedbugs have to make one with a razor-like penis to breed
B6Db TIL On April 1, 1962, the Swedish national television broadcast a 5-minute special on how one could get color TV by placing a nylon stocking in front of the TV. Thousands tried it.
MexkB TIL Jailed Nixon advisers John Ehrlichman and JR Haldeman were both Christian Scientists and they inserted language exempting "prayer is the only cure" parents from the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act.
pGeN TIL the saxaphone was banned in Nazi Germany for being too sexy.