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TIL that in 2021 the Razzie Awards developed a special category for the Worst Bruce Willis Performance in a 2021 Movie. They later scrapped it when the actor’s aphasia diagnosis became public saying it was inappropriate to award it to someone whose performance was affected by a medical condition.
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TIL that after the Shah of Iran’s overthrow, he was reluctantly given medical treatment in Panama. Panama assigned him a “militantly Marxist sociology professor” as a chief bodyguard who “spent much time lecturing the Shah on how he deserved his fate” and was charged $21,000 a month for rent.
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TIL-In the 1800s, William Burke & William Hare realized Edinburgh University medical school paid for cadavers, so they made money by having Hare, a landlord, rent to Edinburgh’s poor community; Burke would then get them drunk and suffocate them. This killing method would come to be called “Burking.”
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