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TIL the last letter George Harrison wrote in his life was to Mike Myers to tell him how much he enjoyed Austin Powers

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Z85Lp TIL the term casualty does not necessarily mean that a person has died due to an event.
epQnE TIL about Vampire fiction is rooted in the "vampire craze" of the 1720s suspected vampires Petar Blagojevich a Serbian peasant who was believed to have become a vampire after his death and have killed nine of his fellow villagers. The case was the earliest, documented cases of vampire hysteria.
gmb7 TIL that Peter Capaldi (the new Doctor) was once the lead singer of a punk band that also included Craig Ferguson
m10rx TIL Frog saliva is a non-Newtonian fluid. The fluid is initially runny when the frog's tongue first hits its prey helping it spread along the surface of their food. After the initial pressure drops the fluid gets gooier and stickier allowing the prey to be quickly brought into the frog's mouth.
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