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TIL While filming Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance in Romania, Nicolas Cage spent a night alone in Bran Castle near Transylvania, the inspiration for Dracula’s residence in the original Bram Stoker novel. Cage stayed in the fictional vampire’s home to ‘channel his energy.’

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X0PYP TIL that poet and cartoonist Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree) was also a frequent writer and illustrator for Playboy. His biographer believes he had sex with hundreds or thousands of women over the course of many visits to the Playboy mansion.
BWOy TIL in 1985 a New Orleans man drowned at pool party attended by 100 lifeguards celebrating a summer with no drownings!
nO7P TIL there was a Mayan God of homosexuality and male prostitutes
RW9 TIL Sugar cures the hiccups 19 out of 20 cases
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