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TIL Bela Lugosi never said he wanted to be buried wearing a Dracula cape, his family made the decision.

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oxGW TIL That Africans were once an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
g6jD TIL Denmark has no legally set minimum wage and McDonald’s workers there make more than $15/hr.
xLo1 TIL in 1981 a man with cerebral palsy appeared on a UK kids’ TV show to demonstrate how much a disabled person can achieve. Instead it sparked a nationwide trend of schoolchildren mocking his speech and calling each other “spastic” as an insult.
loNmV TIL that Phil Perry, performer of the "Goof Troop" theme song, was scheduled to perform a lunch-hour jazz concert to promote a new album inside the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
vGGx TIL: There is a Harvard/Oxford educated doctor that has been running a free TB/HIV clinic in Port au Prince since the 2010 earthquake and she receives no compensation for her work.