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TIL a cluster of graves discovered in rural Connecticut in 1990, initially feared to be the work of a known serial killer, was merely the result of a vampire scare a century earlier.

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a87vb TIL the Passemant astronomical clock in Versailles has shown the correct date, time, moon phase, planetary alignment, etc (accounting for leap years ) from 1750 and can display through 9999.
8AGP TIL 54% of US 4-6 YO children, when asked to choose between Watching TV, or Spending Time With Dad, prefer TV
GYMag TIL that after a bone marrow transplant, a man’s semen contains only the donor’s DNA
jNQPM TIL: Texas law states that any two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat.
NXb61 TIL: Astronomers didnt officially confirm the existence of planets outside our solar system until 1992