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TIL the New England vampire panic was the reaction to an outbreak of tuberculosis in the 19th century throughout New England. Tuberculosis was thought to be caused by the deceased consuming the life of their surviving relatives.

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a8x6N TIL in 1954 a Hurricane hit Canada at a category 1 despite traveling all the way inland from the Carolinas. It killed 81 people in the Toronto area, 95 in the US, and 469 in Haiti.
nZG7 TIL modern Westerners tend to have a lifelong attraction to fire because they don’t learn to start, maintain, and master fire during childhood. However, in cultures where fire is used as a tool from a young age, interest in it wanes around age 7.
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