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TIL in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the famous detuned “flashbulb” sound, which is actually a tuning fork scraping a piano string.

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0aop TIL Albert Pierrepoint, the mose efficient executioner in British history who killed over 400 people, said: “All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a single murder.” He went on to own a pub.
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