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TIL The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Was Distributed Through a Mafia-Owned Film Company

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X04j TIL That if you tape two halves of a ping pong ball to your eyes, and stare at a red light while listening to static, you will have complex and vivid hallucinations.
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