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TIL Conan O'Brien had to get permission from the owners of Conan the Barbarian to use the title "Conan" for his talk show.

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R7Ow7 TIL An Ossuary in Hallstatt, Austria holds over 1,000 skulls, 610 of them delicately hand painted. Due to limited space, after 15 years of burial, remains were relocated to St. Micheal's church and graves were reused. People began decorating their ancestors' skulls to make them less anonymous.
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yZbl TIL most of Sigmund Freud’s theories have been completely discredited to the point that almost no institution in any discipline would dare use him as a credible source
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