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TIL the floor plan of The Overlook Hotel in The Shining (1980) is impossible as another indication of Jack’s insanity

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AAQw TIL it is still legal to kill Scots in the English city of York, as long as they are carrying a bow and an arrow
X47D TIL that it would take 76 8-hour work days for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year.
GrYj TIL one of the first books burned by Nazis, Heinrich Heine play, contained a famous line “Where they burn books, they will in the end also burn people”
wGl6 TIL the first stage of Saturn V was fueled by kerosene, produced 215 million horsepower, and got 5 inches to the gallon
6EdrZ TIL that Vlad ( Dracul ) got his name from his father . His name had its origin in the Romanian sobriquet of his father, Vlad Dracul ("Vlad the Dragon"), who received it after he became a member of the Order of the Dragon.