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TIL that Azerbaijan destroyed medieval Armenian graves in what has been referred to as 'cultural genocide'

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p8BAp TIL Trakr, the hero dog of 9/11 who pulled the last survivor out of the smoking rubble of Ground Zero was cloned. Five Times.
PYMlw TIL deaf schizophrenics hallucinate a disembodied hand signing when they "hear voices"
Wkl6B TIL that there were two versions of the horror movie Dracula (1931) filmed at the same time. An English version (the Bela Lugosi classic) was filmed during the day and at night, a different set of actors filmed a Spanish version using the exact the same sets.
4XY6w TIL - In 1836 a lowly sewer worker asked the governors at the Bank of England to meet him in the vault because he had identified a breach of security. Incredulously they complied, only to see the man pop up to join them through a hole in the floor by moving a few floorboards.
wa8P TIL in 1935, to verify whether Coca-Cola was kosher, Rabbi Tobias Geffen was provided with its formula on the condition that he not disclose it. The Rabbi requested that the non-kosher beef tallow be substituted with a vegetable-based gylcerin, which was done, and the drink was declared kosher.