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TIL in 1978, when John Carpenter screened the final cut of "Halloween" without the sound effects/music to an executive from 20th Century Fox, the executive wasn’t scared at all. Carpenter was then determined to “save it with music” and composed the film’s famous score in just three days.

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R7jpa TIL that in the 1970s the LA Times published an article regarding Oliver, a purported human-chimp hybrid
4kKva TIL Adding Sugar to a Car’s Gas Tank is a Myth and does nothing
E1p0x TIL USA spent about 24 billion dollars on the “Saturn-Apollo” program until 1969, which would correspond to the sum of about 150 billion dollars today. It was the price to pay to make history, for the first people on the Moon to be American astronauts.
w46o TIL chicken was considered a luxury food in the United States until the discovery of vitamin D in 1922, allowing chickens to thrive indoors and during the winter season.
GYA8J TIL that during the Victorian Era, “female hysteria” was a catchall term for many feelings of malaise, including when a woman was horny. Doctors “treated” the ailment by masturbating the women until they reached “hysterical paroxysm”, or as we call it today, an orgasm. [NSFW]