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TIL that the reason Sir Christopher Lee does not speak in the 1966 film Dracula: Prince of Darkness is because he thought the lines for Dracula were so appalling that he refused to say them

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oBayr TIL Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, established the world's first rocket laboratories in Bangalore during the 18th century. And, in addition, led an economic renaissance which made Mysore the world's most industrialized region with per-capita income higher than The Netherlands and UK!
R7n84 TIL that the phrase piggy bank doesn’t come from the animal the jar represents, but from the old word pygg which is clay used to make crockery. If this jar cracked and couldn’t hold liquids, people would use them as their own personal banks.
vP59r TIL that many early phone lines were "party lines" that anyone who picked up the phone could listen in on; customers had to pay an extra monthly fee to upgrade to a private line.
OmGX TIL on Jose Fernandez’s 4th attempt to defect from Cuba to the US, a person fell overboard. Jose jumped into the waters and saved the person. He recalled, “I don’t remember much, just diving in the water and swimming towards this woman. As I was getting close, I could see it was my mother”
4XJEN TIL the famous Old West gunslinger John Wesley Hardin studied law while in prison, and became an attorney in Gonzales, TX once he was released.