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TIL That there is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.

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PY05E TIL John Candy was going to play the role of Fred Flintstone in the 1994 movie The Flintstones, but died shortly before filming of a heart attack. He would have starred alongside his former Second City Television cast mate Rick Moranis, who played Barney Rubble. John Goodman eventually got the role.
68GW TIL that upon his death, pirate Olivier Levasseur had tossed a cryptogram into a crowd and told them if they could figure out the message, his treasure (now valued at $200,000,000) would be theirs, a treasure that to this day has never been found.
x6Q7 TIL Peanuts premiered on this day 62 years ago.
6977J TIL than when a demo version of the Sega CD game Keio Flying Squadron was included in the December 1994 issue of Sega Pro CD magazine, the level select cheat code was mistakenly left in the game, allowing players to access the entire game from the demo disc.
9Y80B TIL that Valentine's Day is the day that St. Valentine was beaten with clubs and tortured to death for performing secret marriages against the Emperor's wishes. The Emperor banned all marriages because soldiers didn't want to leave their families to fight in wars.