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TIL the state of New York requires the seller of a house to disclose if they believe their house is haunted.

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W79bo TIL that the First Image of an Medieval Chastity Belt was From a Treatise on Siege Warfare and Torture Devices - In Reality, Chastity Belts Likely Never Existed.
8KJa TIL Emperor I Ferdinand of Austria had 20 seizures per day, and could not speak coherently. The only intelligible sentence he ever spoke during his 13 year reign was: “I am the emperor, and I want dumplings!”
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