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TIL after discovering Scarface's popularity among hip hop community, Universal proposed changing its synthesizer score to hip hop. De Palma swiftly declined.

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VBABB TIL that St Christopher was often depicted in Byzantine icons as having the head of a dog, this is speculated to be due to a misreading of the Latin description of him being Cananeus or Canaanite as caninus, ie canine
45ka TIL Walk Off the Earth singer Sarah Blackwood was kicked off a United Airlines flight over her crying son
kJvDW TIL that killer whales can imitate human speech. They are able to copy words such as ‘hello’ and ‘bye bye’ as well as sounds from other orcas.
GVLJ TIL that a Jewish tradition where a rabbi sucks the blood from a freshly-circumcised penis, has caused many babies to contract herpes. 2 have died and 2 have suffered brain damage since 2000.
VBX7Z TIL in many New England States, it's illegal to demolish a stone wall.