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TIL There’s a medieval town in Italy abandoned since 1963
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TIL that not only were HP Lovecraft and Harry Houdini good friends, Lovecraft wrote a short story "Under the Pyramids" starring Houdini as a man character.
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TIL that Animorphs's entire 64-book run was published in a span of 5 years
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TIL of the U.S. Navy's Nasty-class fast patrol boats, which were Norwegian-designed and used for covert operations during the Vietnam war
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TIL after writing the main riff of Seven Nation Army, Jack White planned to save it in case he was ever asked to write a James Bond theme. Deciding this was unlikely to happen, he recorded the song anyways. Five years later, he was asked to write the theme song for the Bond film Quantum of Solace.
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TIL that when 16th century Russian church services grew enormously long, rather than eliminate any part of the ceremony, the church opted to save time by performing up to six parts of the service simultaneously. This led to absurd situations where numerous cantors were shouting over each other.