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TIL Stephen King is writing a sequel to “The Shining,” called “Doctor Sleep,” set to be published in 2013.

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M78EK TIL that the Las Vegas Valley used to be wetlands and green meadows with plentiful springwater fed by snowmelt from surrounding mountains, until people started building over it and sucked the aquifer dry.
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