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TIL Empty Mason Jars are more expensive than glass jars full of food.

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Y7mZ7 TIL the most translated book after the Bible is The Little Prince
0wExv TIL Parisians used to "hang out" in the morgue situated near the Notre Dame de Paris. The macabre attraction used to lure as many as 40.000 visitors per day. There were even street vendors catering to the crowds waiting outside to take a peek at the corpses.
KljJ TIL the Chainsaw was originally designed as a medical tool used in Symphysiotomy - the widening of a woman’s pelvis to aid in childbirth
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awdnM TIL Stanley Kubrick wanted to use Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother suite in A Clockwork Orange. Pink Floyd's bassist Roger Waters refused when he found out Kubrick would edit the music to fit the film. Later, Waters asked Kubrick to use sounds from 2001: A Space Odyssey on a record. Kubrick refused.