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TIL that Spartans only allowed marked graves for men who died in battle and women who died in childbirth.

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p8l7e TIL Marvel Super Hero Island at Universal's Islands of Adventure had a scarezone during the 2002 Halloween Horror Nights, where superheroes were killed in horrific ways and villains took over the island. Marvel officials were angry after finding out and the scarezone was never used again after 2002.
0wpyL TIL that cars with yellow, amber turn signals are 28% less likely to be involved in crashes.
grAo7 TIL that "Total Eclipse of the Heart," performed by Bonnie Tyler, was originally titled "Vampires in Love." Songwriter Jim Steinman wrote it while working on a musical of Nosferatu, with lyrics about the power of darkness and love's place in the dark.
J1PQ1 TIL the term "port" to refer to a ship's lefthand side was for centuries much less common than the term "larboard", which only fell out of favor in the mid-1800s once the British Navy ordered its usage abandoned due to sounding too similar to "starboard".
oBj67 TIL that Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" music video was intended to be Western themed, until Michael who had recently seen The Godfather with director Colin Chilvers decided that it should instead be featured around 1930's Gangsters.