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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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6ELYW TIL 15-yr-old Temar Boggs & a friend saved a 5-yr-old girl from a kidnapper; the teens saw the girl in the kidnapper's car & chased the car on their bicycles. After a 15 min. chase, the driver apparently knew he was being followed, stopped & let the girl out.
neKb7 TIL Three-Man-Morris, a precursor to Tic-Tac-Toe, had an early example of expansions, and other board game history
n74d TIL that when you search “I want to kill myself” on google, or a related phrase, it will show the phone number for the national suicide prevention lifeline before the results.
b6gZj TIL There's a football(soccer) player named Osama Vinladen with a brother named Saddam Hussein.
ngG7 TIL A German biologist who claimed measles is psychosomatic, offered 100,000 Euros to anyone who proved measles is a virus. A German doctor presented evidence of the virus; the biologist dismissed the evidence, but the local court ordered him to pay up.