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TIL George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh said no more Ocean’s sequels out of respect for the passing of Bernie Mac

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e0PE6 TIL that in 1962, elephant bones were discovered under the Vatican. Decades later, it was discovered that they were the bones of Pope Leo X's pet elephant Hanno, who died in 1516 after doctors (in an attempt to treat constipation) inserted a gold enema up its rectum.
awM7b TIL that the Hays code had a rule only allowing kissing to go on for 3 seconds in movies. Alfred Hitchcock got around this rule for his 1946 film, Notorious, by two actors break off every three seconds. The whole sequence lasts two and a half minutes.
VB1nZ TIL that designers of a 59-story New York skyscraper failed to account for quartering winds and power loss, leaving a 6.25% chance it would fall in any given year.
O5ye TIL The militarized border between North and South Korea, with practically no human inhabitants, has become a refuge for multiple endangered species
woN61 TIL that in 1998, Vatican City had the highest murder rate in the world because of one double homicide