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TIL Dolly Parton co-owns one of the production companies that produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.

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d8Rp9 TIL that American neurologist Walter Freeman drove around the US performing ice pick lobotomies in a van he coined the lobotomobile.
e0e06 TIL of Cake Man, a Danish tradition to bake a birthday cake man and let the birthday girl (or boy) slit its throat while the other children scream.
9wvE7 TIL that anyone who wishes to join the French Foreign Legion must do anonymously under an assumed name. After one year of service, the recruit may choose to officially give the legion their real name.
vJVK TIL that 323 reindeer were killed in a single lightning storm in Norway. Reindeer huddle together in bad weather, and their close proximity explains why so many were killed at once.
Z8DRp TIL War pigs were used by the romans because their squeals scared the war elephants into fleeing and trampling their own armies.