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TIL Nicolas Cage bought a house in New Orleans in which a serial killer tortured and murdered a few dozen people

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xNP7 TIL that the 1965 “Slumber Party Barbie” came with a scale permanently set to 110 lbs, and a diet book with just one instruction: “Don’t Eat!”
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