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TIL The bird attacks on Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" was based upon an actual event and scientists now know it was because the birds were poisoned.

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XE1Qj TIL there's a Batman miniseries called "White Knight" which reverses the roles of Batman and the Joker. The comic takes place in world where Joker has been rehabilitated and now has to save Gotham City from the Batman.

mxKdv TIL there is a controversial murder defence called the 'rough sex murder defence', or '50 Shades defence', which asserts that the victim consented or even demanded sexual practices that led to the homicide.

OG7e4 TIL there is a pro-slavery follow-up to "Uncle Tom's Cabin", called "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston". The latter was written by a different author and released just a year after the former as a direct counter to its anti-slavery message.

XE8Q8 TIL the modern air conditioner was invented by Willis Carrier not to cool people, but to reduce damaging humidity in a print shop.

E1eKx TIL that brown recluse spiders are pretty badly misunderstood and are nowhere near as dangerous and terrifying as everyone thinks they are.