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TIL theres a screenplay named ‘Atuk’ which has never been made into a movie because anyone who has shown interest in playing the lead role has died unexpectedly, including John Candy, Chris Farley, John Belushi and Sam Kinison

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Z8wd4 TIL that Sleep loss causes social withdrawal and loneliness
69PZW TIL that four years after the RMS Titanic sunk, its sister ship, the RMS Britannic, also sunk after striking a German mine. Then, in 1918, the RMS Carpathia - known as the the ship that rescued the Titanic’s survivors, also sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
0wMK1 TIL that, until 1791, the Bethlem Royal Hospital, or Bedlam, welcomed paying visitors who watched the patients and sometimes taunted them with sticks or otherwise abused them
kJo7 TIL: Bugs Bunny’s nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position, originated in a scene in the film It Happened One Night, in which Clark Gable’s character leans against a fence, eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full.
1OYd TIL that according to the Quran, Islamic law actually forbids acts of terrorism.