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TIL the owners of Marilyn Monroe's house (where she died) want to demolish it to expand the property next door

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W7dWB TIL: Chedipe is a vulgar, undressed, Indian witch vampire who rides on a tiger at night, casts a spell to enter your home, and then sucks men's blood through their toes. Sometimes, if the man is married, she sleeps with him in order to cause marital strife as she feeds off pain and sadness.
6Xx7 TIL that William Shakespeare is the originator of knock knock jokes. The oldest written knock knock joke is found in his play, The Tragedy of Macbeth.
konE TIL that in the 50’s and 60’s the CIA would hire prostitutes to bring back unsuspecting men to safe houses where they would be drugged with large doses of LSD and observed from behind a one-way mirror. It was dubbed Operation Midnight Climax.
Q46d TIL there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the first ten moves in chess.
oR1PE TIL that Sigourney Weaver earned $1,000,000 and a share of the profits for Aliens (1986), whereas she earned only $35,000 for Alien (1979).