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TIL If Lon Chaney had not died suddenly, he would have played the lead role in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) instead of Bela Lugosi.

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kO0xg TIL Goodhart's Law, the principle that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. For example, when a government tries to bring down unemployment figures to demonstrate how well the economy is doing, unemployment figures stop being a good measure of the economy.
D8lP TIL a group of architecture students is working to bring a home that costs just $20,000 to market. Their goal: create a house “anyone could afford … and anybody would want.”
XEVVr TIL President Grover Cleveland first met his future wife Frances when he was 27 and she was a newborn. He bought her a baby carriage and helped raise her following her father's death. He then married her when she turned 21 (he was 49). She remains the youngest wife of a sitting president.
RJ17 TIL a 93-YEAR-OLD Japanese man has been officially recognised as the only person to have survived two nuclear bombs.
yQlVv TIL J. Edgar Hoover recommended that Einstein be kept out of America by the Alien Exclusion Act, but he was overruled by the U.S. State Department. FBI spied on Einstein for 22 years and kept a dossier with 1400+ Pages on him.