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TIL that a gothic soap opera ran in the 60s and early 70s called Dark Shadows. This show was focused on the lives of the Colins family who’s characters dealt supernatural monsters and being such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, witches, and other creatures.

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lR7 TIL Henry Ford built a utopian worker city in the Amazon rainforest to harvest rubber, and the Amazon natives who worked there couldn’t drink, they were forced to square-dance, and sometimes they had knife-fights over the scarce food. It was called ‘Fordlandia.’
PGxL TIL that the creator of Legos made a policy of no military sets because he didn’t want war to seem like child’s play.
R7E4l TIL that in 1579, war almost broke out between the Swiss cantons of Appenzell and Saint Gallen, because a calendar-printer forgot to draw on a bear's genitalia
jjKN TIL that diamonds are not rare or valuable and the reason demand is high is because of a marketing campaign by DeBeers to sell more engagement rings
JM1V TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger did not accept his California governor’s salary of $175,000 per year because of his already substantial wealth from his acting career.