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TIL that the Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a commentary about meat production. Director Tobe Hooper said, "I gave up meat while making that film. In a way I thought the heart of the film was about meat; it’s about the chain of life and killing sentient beings."

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GY504 TIL the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea has become a unintentional nature preserve. Several rare and endangered species, including the Amur leopard and Siberian tiger have been spotted there.
WkZe9 TIL many fingerprint scanners won't recognize the fingerprint of a dead person, as dead people's skin does not have the electrical conductance needed for such fingerprint scanners to work.
XeaE TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos
mw9P TIL that in 1978, scientists discovered a family of six that had been living cut off from all civilization deep in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years. They had no knowledge of cellophane, television, the Moon Landing, or World War II.
e07j4 TIL that the Walt Disney Company has never released a film that has won the Academy Award for Best Picture in all of it's 95 year history.