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TIL Someone made a Jack Torrance twitter account, with over 1 million tweets saying the same thing

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W7j5N TIL In 1998, Elvis Costello wrote an anthem for Angelica Pickles in The Rugrats Movie, that was performed by No Doubt
OGoWe TIL that in Haitian rural folklore, there are actually two kinds of zombies: the more widely known corporeal zombie, which is missing its spirit, and the "zombie astral," which is missing its body.
WdKd TIL that a brain surgeon from Italy suffered a heart attack during an operation, but forced himself to continue after realizing that the patient would not recover if he stopped.
yQ09V TIL The whole Unit 731 were granted immunity by the Americans if they gave the Allies their information. The Unit 731 committed many war crimes throughout the war through biological tests.
EP7W TIL that the phrase “Blood is thicker than water” was originally “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” meaning the modern phrase is opposite in meaning to its origin.