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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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KYwRw TIL Kerbals (from the game Kerbal Space Program) speak backwards Spanish (aka "loñapsE").
d8dw7 TIL the breakup of Yugoslavia was arguably accelerated by a Serbian man who was injured while pleasuring himself with a glass bottle. When questioned by doctors, he blamed his injury on an attack by "Albanian separatists" and became a cause celebre for Serbian ultranationalists.
xVx7o TIL: There is a tribe in Africa that communicates with birds to find honeybee hives and then gives the birds some of the honey in return.
M7gEK TIL Rihanna was an army cadet in a sub-military program, where the later Barbadian singer-songwriter Shontelle was her drill sergeant
XEmY8 TIL in 2000, the Missouri chapter of the KKK won a court battle to allow them to participate in the Adopt-a-Highway program. The state legislature promptly renamed the stretch of I-55 they were assigned to clean as the “Rosa Parks Highway”