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TIL: Some cities have real estate laws that legally require home owners to disclose if their house is haunted to any potential buyers.

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rwLx TIL that the Ostrich-Egg Globe may be the oldest globe, dated 1504, to depict the New World, engraved with immaculate detail on two conjoined halves of ostrich eggs.
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l9BN TIL a cat has “predicted” the deaths of 25 residents in a nursing home in the US. The cat displayed sudden affection for dying residents
VMXmD TIL that Adolf Hitler and JRR Tolkien fought at the Battle of the Somme.
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