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TIL that in 1959 the U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero used a nuclear capable SSM-N-8 "Regulus" cruise missile to deliver mail

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wMn7 TIL that Count Dracula was first depicted wearing a Bela Lugosi-style cape/tuxedo combo in 1924 when the book was adapted for London stage. It was the only way to make it obvious that the Count was charming and sophisticated from a distance.
e0QND TIL: Disney's ''The Shadow King'' (2011) remains unreleased and half complete despite $50 million dollars spent on it's production by a team of animators, model-makers and puppeteers and Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Sellick. Disney said it was 'Too dark and unsettling to make toys of'
m1vXp TIL that the hooded pitohuis is a poisonous bird. In 1990, when museum workers tried to put the bird in a museum, their hands began to burn. They are the first documented poisonous birds.
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