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TIL that the movie 'Nosferatu' is likely the original source of the notion that sunlight kills vampires.

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mEaM TIL that Magneto was based on Malcolm X and Prof. X was based on Martin Luther King, Jr.
p8aPQ TIL 1972 Soviet Union's eavesdropping led to “The Great Grain Robbery” of communications on calls between American wheat farmers and the Department of Agriculture that enabled the Russians to covertly buy record amounts of wheat at low prices, causing a U.S. grain shortage 18 months later.
KYyka TIL that Champion U.S.A. invented hoodie in 1930s and marketed to laborers working in freezing temperatures in upstate New York
J1QZm TIL European food used to be spicy like Indian food
d8VbB TIL There were so many bombs and chemical weapons dumped into the Gulf of Mexico not even the military knows how much is down there, or where it all is.