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TIL the Mall of America is owned by Canadians

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R5ej1 TIL that during the Vietnam War, U.S. forces faked a vampire attack to scare Viet Cong soldiers by draining a corpse’s blood and leaving puncture wounds to exploit local vampire folklore.
yQybv TIL of Boxer Billy Collins, who in 1983 had his undefeated career ended when his opponent, Luis Resto, cheated and removed safety padding from his gloves and tore Collins' Iris in his right eye. Depressed, Collins spiraled into alcoholism and depression leading to his apparent suicide.
wo51M TIL: Farting in space can be dangerous
AN0Q7 TIL that hundreds of miles underground in the Earth's mantle enough water is trapped within minerals that it could fill the world's oceans three times.
nWBjB TIL that the idea that people harvest Adrenochrome from humans, subject of a wide-spread conspiracy theory, originated in Hunter S. Thompson's novel "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"