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TIL that the descendants of Cornelius Vanderbilt, once America’s richest man, held a reunion in 1973. Not a single one of them were millionaires.

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EVPW TIL that the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, is empty. In 1998, the remains were identified as USAF 1st Lt. Michael Blassie, and were reinterred in St. Louis, MO - his hometown.
jePR TIL that all citizens of France are automatically also citizens of Scotland
yQM0p TIL The word 'zombie' is never spoken in Romero's Night of the Living Dead. Romero himself didn't initially consider the antagonists in the film to be zombies, later saying "when I made the first film ... To me, zombies were still those boys in the Caribbean doing the wetwork for [Bela] Lugosi."
dQgd TIL that Generic and brand name drugs are required by U.S. law to be equally effective
ZQP4 TIL In 1995 New Mexico state senator Duncan Scott introduced an amendment that psychologists were required to wear a wizard’s hat when they testify in court.