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TIL in the 1950s, the CIA exploited Filipino vampire myths to instill fear in villages, killing a man, marking him with bite wounds, and hanging him upside down. This was part of efforts to help elect Ramon Magsaysay, a U.S. backed president.

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0wka1 TIL the first animal to ask an existential question was from a parrot named Alex. He asked what color he was, and learned that it was "grey".
oRBgK TIL that 1996's movie "Twister" was rated PG-13 for "intense depiction of very bad weather".
N7kGb TIL pornography involving characters with the appearance of minors is proctected by the First Amendment, as long as the actors themselves are of legal age.
PYK9J TIL about Hemigrapsus estellinensis, an extinct species of crab that lived solely in a small saltwater spring in the Texas panhandle, 500 miles from the ocean. Probably a relic of the Pleistocene Era, the species was wiped out when the U.S. Army built a dike around the spring in 1964.
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