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TIL that the painting known as "The Green Man" was once believed to be cursed. Many of the people who acquired the painting experienced a series of unfortunate events or misfortunes, leading to a local legend about its curse.

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ADKYo TIL in 1987 director John Landis was acquitted on 3 counts of involuntary manslaughter after actor Vic Morrow and two children aged 6 and 7 were decapitated on the set of The Twilight Zone movie in 1982.
XEx8X TIL long term radiation damages the cameras on the ISS. Also, astronauts occasionally see flashes of light as heavy ions or charged particles crash through their skull and fire off photo receptor cells in their eyes despite being closed.
8eNRb TIL Nintendo doesn't make their games completely in house and that they keep refusing to say who makes the game until the end credits.
kJ0AW TIL that the reason Washington DC was created as a perfect square was due to vague wording in The Constitution in which it stated that the capital district must be "10 miles square".
awbaM TIL George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" are not banned in China and can be easily found in Chinese bookstores.