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TIL the original Beetlejuice script was less humorous and more dark with the initial fatal car accident depicted graphically. Betelgeuse himself was supposed to be a winged demon who takes the form of a short MiddleEastern man. He also wants to kill the Deetzes and wants sex from Lydia not marriage

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wBk1 TIL there are a pair of craniopagus conjoined twins whose brains are so intertwined, they share all of their senses. They see what each other sees, taste what each other tastes, feel what each other feels.
1abwP TIL of the 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard. Unseasonably warm temperatures of 65°F in mid-November were followed by one of the worst blizzards in Midwest history which created drifts more than 20 feet high. The blizzard ultimately killed more than 150 people and allegedly 1.5 million turkeys.
5YpGR TIL In the 1890s, electric bicycles were documented within various U.S. patents. However, in 1992 hardly any commercial electric bicycles were available and the terms E-Bike, power bike, pedelec, assisted bicycle, and power-assisted bicycle only became popular by 2001
woMwo TIL in 1996, a cyclone with charactristics of a tropical storm formed over Lake Huron and lasted for about 5 days
QNM8a TIL: Of all the European royal crowns, only the British one actually sits on the head of a monarch. All other European monarchs, including even the Pope in his political capacity, have civil inaugurations rather than coronations.