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TIL that there is a museum sorcery and witchcraft in Iceland. Visitors can experience complete rituals and spells related to magic. One displays exhibits a pair of pants made from dried human skin, called necropants. They were worn for good luck.

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7rKbZ TIL Latvia's symbol of national identity is a rare breed of cow with light blue or dark ultramarine hides, dark meat and produce very little milk. Under Soviet times, the cow was considered useless and tried to breed other cow breeds to replace it, nearly driving the blue cow to extinction.
LRrv TIL an epidemic of contagious laughter broke out in Tanzania in 1962, which lasted over six months and affected thousands of people
oBN0R TIL bluesman R. L. Burnside killed a man and said: "I didn't mean to kill nobody, I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord."
yQo9V TIL that in 1977, members of the rock band KISS mixed their own blood with the red ink used to print the first KISS comic book.
e0wVk TIL Jay Jackson, the actor who played Perd Hapley in Parks and Rec, used to be a real newscaster and only takes acting roles as a newscaster