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TIL that actor Bela Lugosi who played Dracula, is actually buried in his Dracula cape.

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VxGQ TIL that in 1943 the United States Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that government officials cannot force anyone to participate in patriotic rituals.
4XdJa Today I Learned Elvis Presley asked President Nixon for a DEA badge because he believed ‘With the federal narcotics badge, he could legally enter any country both wearing guns and carrying any drugs he wished’.
loxpA TIL on Valentine's Day of 1884, just 36 hours after the birth of their only daughter, Alice, future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt held his wife as she passed away from undiagnosed Bright's disease. Just hours before, in the same house, he had already said a final goodbye to his mother, Martha.
Ya9B TIL the discoverer of the Titanic found evidence of ancient habitation beneath the Black Sea, suggesting a flood of “biblical” proportions.
pYm1p TIL long after abandoning their cities the Mayan people still exist as a distinct group, and make up 40 percent of Guatemala's population