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TIL a mental hospital in Provo, Utah ran a haunted attraction called “The Haunted Castle” with many of the hospital patients as performers.

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ANPgd TIL: "Slugging" or the practice of standing in lines near bus stops, in order to form an "instant carpool" thus allowing a single driver to pick up passengers and use the HOV lanes, originated in Washington DC in the early 1970s, and remains a viable means of commuting out of Washington today.
x6p5o TIL Ghost moons — if they really exist — are swirling clouds of dust that share Earth’s orbit, staying ahead of or behind Earth as it goes around the Sun. Officially called “Kordylewski clouds,” ghost moons were first reported in the 1960s and were only tentatively confirmed in 2018.
PYjGE TIL only 16.1% of high-functioning autistic men are currently in a relationship, according to a 2017 study.
b69eN TIL Moxie is the oldest bottled soft drink in the U.S. Founded in 1884, 2 years before Coca-Cola, it originally claimed to have “cured drunkards by the thousands". Once widely available, it is now mostly found in New England. In 2005, Moxie was named the State of Maine's official soft drink.
0wkj TIL the world’s oldest still-active gymnast (Johanna Quast) is 86 years old – and still demonstrates at a competitive level