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TIL that before Joss Whedon settled on the title and concept of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," his first draft of the original movie had a very different title and slant: "Martha the Immortal Waitress"

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AD61B TIL there is no such thing as "South Detroit". "South Detroit would be Windsor, ON, Canada.
p8P7b TIL Cheryl Pierson was being abused by her dad but when he threatened to abuse her sister, 9, she hired a classmate to kill him. The judge was lenient on them both. When Cheryl got out, she wrote a book & the classmate went back to prison to run their college program.
neg8b TIL The first published story of an abduction by extraterrestrials dates back to Stockton, California in 1896. A man claimed he and a friend encountered an attempted kidnapping by three tall, thin beings, 7 feet tall and nude, with small delicate hands and hairless except for a soft downy fur
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