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TIL that Virginia rounds up its sex offenders to be held at the courthouse during trick-or-treating hours.

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x6k5o TIL that Edvard Munch's 1895 painting "Vampire" is actually called "Love and Pain" and that it was never meant to depict a vampire. Originally six copies of the painting were made, but to date only five are accounted for.
R9dQ TIL half-used hotel soap is sterilized, melted down, and reformed and sent to poorer countries with scarce hygiene resources
mxvlp TIL the Hoover Dam was made with enough concrete to build a highway from New York to California
epmEJ TIL the Rockefeller Center tree is donated to Habitat for Humanity every year since 2007 to help build a home
VR68 TIL an orca from Seaworld named Kandu V, attempted to bite a newcomer ocra, but broke her own jaw and bled to death in front of thousands