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TIL About the bulwar lytton bad fiction contest, a contest for cursed comments

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xVP71 TIL Georgia Tann became a millionaire in the 1930s by babynapping poor people's children, falsifying birth records, and selling them to rich families out of state for upwards of $5,000 (around $91,000 today) such as Joan Crawford and wrestler Ric Flair's adoptive parents.
LW4Q TIL there is a modern Australian interpretation of Macbeth where the title character is a high ranking gang member in Melbourne’s underworld who tries to kill his crime boss. The prophetic vision shown to Macbeth by the three witches is depicted as a drug induced trip at a night club.
PY5dZ TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was arrested in part because of his use of the phrase "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." The odd phrasing showed up in both his manifesto and his personal letters.
MNAa TIL Mars’s largest moon, Phobos, is one third hollow. Which once led some to believe it was artificial in origin.
1eQd TIL That the highest grossing Chinese film is not being shown in Taiwan because Taiwanese quota regulations only allow 10 films released from mainland China every year, with the films decided by random numbers.