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TIL A Man is Selling Evidence that Nicolas Cage is a vampire for $1 million dollars.

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M77pV TIL that the Japanese Red Cross Society was well supported by Empress Shoken and other imperial family members since its inception in 1887 and among other efforts they donated $146,000 in relief funds to San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Ojy6 TIL that before the 1900s, women didn’t start having periods until much later in their adolescence, as in late teens or even their 20s
9YvRr TIL during filming Silence of the Lambs, Anthony Hopkins was so terrifying as Hannibal Lecter, Jodie Foster was scared of him and avoided him while on set.
x6Egk TIL that lato-lato were actually banned in the US in the 1970s as Clackers because of material that would shatter, then fly into your face and injure you.
jN6dp "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. It would take a moon-size object to move the moon, says Clark Chapman, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, and most likely the moon wouldn't survive. Hitting it with a much larger, denser object would be like whacking an egg with a golf club.