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TIL that Pope Pius XII, who is often criticized for not speaking forcefully against Hitler, supervised a rescue network which saved 860,000 Jewish lives - more than all the international agencies combined.

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m1wrM TIL that Count Von Count on Sesame Street is lore accurate because vampires suffer from arithnomania
WbRB TIL in 2011 a man killed his wife inside of a Walmart and rather than close the store they just roped off the gory crime scene while police investigated.
gKGb TIL Elvis Presley’s daughter has been married to both Michael Jackson and Nicholas Cage
g89L TIL Italian banks take Parmigiano Reggiano — a.k.a. Parmesan — as collateral for loans and keep hundreds of thousands of cheese wheels in their own climate-controlled vaults for the 2 years it takes to mature
VMKg0 TIL In an epilogue at the end of the original 1931 Dracula film, Dracula breaks the fourth wall and taunts the audience, saying vampires are real and to be afraid. In a 1936 re-release, this was censored by the Hays Code, out of fear it would encourage belief in the occult.