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TIL Shirley Temple’s daughter Lori was the bassist in Grunge originator’s the Melvins.

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0pO5 TIL that a tribe in Brazil uses a glove filled with hundreds of the most painful ants stinging ants in the world, the bullet ant, as an initiation rite for young men. The rite can happen for up to ten minutes, must occur a total of 20 times before the boy is declared a man.
YpDbZ TIL. That during the making of rush hour 2 the secret service confiscated $100m in prop money after filming due to it being so accurate that extras were able to spend it at local buisnesses.
BrgKk TIL in 1830 students at Yale revolted over the introduction of chalk boards
Wd5X TIL George Miller, director of the Mad Max films, was a medical doctor who began taking film classes in his down time. Much of the physical violence in the movies was informed by what he learned treating car-crash victims.
pYGDZ TIL about Matthew Hopkins, believed responsible for the executions of 100+ “witches” in 1644–1646