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TIL Rachel Reynolds has been a model on The Price is Right for over 20 years and is the only cast member remaining from the Bob Barker era

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m1PnE TIL that Communist Romania hated the Dracula story but was becoming dependant on Western tourism. A local functionary in the county of Bistriţa managed to trick the authorities into letting him open two Dracula themed hotels, one based on the inn that Jonathan Harker stays at in the book.
oRdB7 TIL back in February 1972, Franken Berry cereal caused some children’s feces to turn pink, a condition dubbed “Franken Berry stool,” due to an indigestible pigment. The recipe, along with Count Chocula’s, was quickly reformulated to remove the pigment.
65kw TIL that Yungay, Peru was the site of the deadliest avalanche in history. In 1962, two American scientists predicted the calamity, and were consequently forced to flee by the government. 8 years later, their prediction came true and 20,000 people were killed in a day.
5BVD TIL the special sunglasses John Lennon and Ozzy Osbourne wore are called “teashades”
dDDar TIL SETI itself has maintained that "Contact (1997 film) is indescribably more accurate in its depiction of SETI than any Hollywood film in history."