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TIL King Charles is a descendant of the real life Dracula.

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VMnA0 TIL “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was originally planned to start with Indie riding a motorcycle on the Great Wall of China, followed by the discovery of a “Lost World” type of hidden valley with dinosaurs. The idea was scrapped when the Chinese government refused to let them film there.
78eLX TIL Due to atmospheric anomalies, during WWII a farmhouse in Rhode Island was able to intercept enemy radio transmissions from around the world | Even German tank-to-tank communications in North Africa
wLr56 TIL that the last World Pandemic started in Yunnan China in 1855 and cost 15m lives eventually petering out in the 1950's.
Yd6G TIL the Third Amendment, protecting against quartering of troops in a residence, has only had one major court case in the history of the United States.
d81YE TIL of John R. Brinkley, an American Quack who convinced men to let him sew goat testicles into their abdomen as a way to increase male virility, as well as a cure all for all sorts of ailments and disease.