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TIL that author John Ajvide Lindqvist claims Hammer Films swindled him into selling all film/TV rights to his classic vampire novel "Let the Right One In" for 1 Swedish Kroner -- about .93 US cents

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P1G0L TIL a device called the "Lollipop Star" plays music through your teeth. It uses bone conduction to send sound vibrations through your jawbone directly to your inner ear while you eat the candy, making the music "tasteable" through vibration.
gMyRX TIL after her death, Mercy Brown's heart and liver were burned, and the ashes mixed into a tonic that was given to her sick brother to drink. Her father believed that she was a vampire and that the tonic would cure the brother of tuberculosis. It didn't; he died two months later.
R77Z6 TIL international sperm bank Cryo -- the world's largest -- no longer accepts donations from red-haired men. According to its director, "We have nothing against red-haired donors. We just have too much in stock relative to demand... unlike in Ireland, where redheads' sperm goes like hotcakes."
eprj5 TIL that since 1997, a group of craftsmen has been building a medieval-style castle in France from scratch, using only 13th-century techniques, tools, and materials, as part of an ongoing experimental archaeology project called “Guédelon.” The estimated completion date is 2030.
EL7d TIL that when Ken McElroy was murdered with at least two different guns, the residents of Skidmore, Missouri refused to identify the shooters. For decades he was known as the ‘town bully’ due to multiple crimes throughout town, and at the time was on trial for shooting an elderly grocer in the neck.