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TIL Silent Hill's art director, Masahiro Ito, drew inspiration for iconic characters like Pyramid Head from the haunting, surreal paintings of British artist Francis Bacon.

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gWl4 TIL From 1995-2004 A caller coaxed McDonald’s managers into strip searching workers and even got the fiancé of one Assistant Manager to order a worker to perform oral sex on him. The story has now been made into a movie called “Compliance.”
Y76wW TIL that a 14 ton component of Apollo 12 occasionally orbits the Earth (referred to as J002E3). We anticipate it will be back sometime in the 2040s and aren’t certain what will happen if it enters the earth’s atmosphere.
0wWEj TIL that filmmaker Ralph Bakshi grew up in an all-black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. and got his mother's permission to attend the local segregated school with his friends. The school called the police and, afraid whites would riot if they learned that a white student was attending, expelled him
xV1D7 TIL the 2nd M in MGM is for Louis B. Mayer. He allegedly molested 16 year old Judy Garland, Dorthy from original Wizard of OZ movie.
0mLR TIL the collars on mens dress shirts used to be detachable. Why? “Detachable collars saved on laundering since they were the part that needed frequent cleaning and replacement.”