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TIL the reason for sightings of Bloody Mary, is because of something called the ‘Caputo effect’

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KOEBG TIL that in 1968, John Lennon, while tripping on acid, called an emergency meeting of the Beatles to inform them that he was the second coming of Jesus Christ.
7rZlx TIL of the caveman fused into rock. After extracting the bones sticking out from limestone, researchers believe the Neanderthal fell down a sinkhole around 150,000 years ago. The bones gradually became incorporated into the stalactites left behind by water dribbling down the cave walls.