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TIL that the use of Santa Rosa High School in the horror film Scream (1996) was denied just days before filming was to begin. As a result, the city was blacklisted in Hollywood and a note included in the closing credits; “No thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board”

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yQrWM TIL the physics of surfing.
lbV7 TIL that the first Olympic disqualification for drug use was against a Swedish pentathlete who drank two beers before his shooting event to calm his nerves.
wLOb7 TIL the largest lynching in America was of Italian Americans in New Orleans due to the police chief using a racial slur to identify his murderer, all accused were acquitted or suffered a mistrial and sent back to prison to await further charges only for it to be stormed by vigilantes that night.
VBMg4 TIL that sirens are designed to trigger fear circuits in the brain.
08QN TIL a 2005 article from Der Spiegel quoting Fouad Hussein predicts the future regarding the Islamic State in an eerily accurate way: “An Islamic Caliphate in Seven Easy Steps” We’re currently at phase 5 and right on schedule.