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TIL the family of Dracula was a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.

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OLgY TIL that the UK govt has created a tax called the “Google Tax” to stop corporates diverting funds abroad to reduce tax liability.
9YDgM TIL of Smoky, a Yorkshire terrier who helped save the lives of 250 soldiers in 1944
xGvD TIL in 1860 the original The Game of Life board game had a “suicide” option.
78Ver TIL Edward Dando was a legendary thief known for eating -300 oysters and never paying, numerous articles, poems and street ballads were written about him and Charles Dickens compared him to Alexander the Great
GY97G TIL of the Snake Detection Theory, which states that humans are remarkably good at noticing snakes, even when camouflaged or when we only get a brief glimpse of them.