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TIL that scientists have shown that Count Dracula (Vlad III the Impaler) cried tears of blood

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OooL4 TIL in 859 a man named Basil arrived in Constantinople penniless. Within 8 years, he had begun an affair with the Byzantine Emperor Michael III, had married the emperor's mistress, and had been crowned co-emperor. In 867 Basil murdered Michael in his bedchambers after first cutting off his hands.
9wgD6 TIL singer Shaggy's signature deep voice is not his real voice. He used it in one song that became a hit and then had to keep using it.
bnYQ TIL that Cee lo green made a remake of fuck you in 2011 called thank you as a tribute to fire fighters and a thank you for fire fighters saving his mothers life in a car crash.
Eg1vP TIL the individual responsible for the development of residency programs in the United States, which are notorious for long hours and grueling schedules, was a known addict to both cocaine and morphine.
YpBOZ TIL that Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who oversaw the dismantling of the USSR, has said that the Chernobyl explosion was “perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.”