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

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w15P TIL in 1991, the little plastic ball in cans of Guinness won the Queens Award for Technological Advancement, beating the Internet and Email.
pwQQ TIL the brain can be kept alive outside the body for days.
b6yo0 TIL David Koresh, leader of religious cult Branch Davidians, was infatuated with American pop singer Madonna and claimed that God himself sent Madonna to Earth for him.
46Oa TIL Cuba has created four anti-cancer vaccines that have gone completely unreported.
78dBM TIL Andrew Jackson, in a duel, gave his opponent a free shot. Hit in the chest, he returned fire, killing the man. Later said "if he had shot me through the brain, I should still have killed him."