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TIL that the character of Dracula was based on Walt Whitman, whom Bram Stoker regarded as the archetypical man.

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9wAO7 TIL that during WWII, the British diverted so much Indian textile production that civilians raided graveyards for clothes. Some people couldn’t work because they didn’t have clothes; others locked themselves in a room until it was their turn to wear the one piece that they shared with others.
8aMjP TIL There is an active volcano in Colorado, USA that last erupted around the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
gLKX TIL In 1999 hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’. At the time it was called “the most widespread security incident in the history of the Web”
ABMx TIL that on August 1, 1946, in Athens, Tennessee, battle-hardened WWII veterans won a shootout with highly corrupt police deputies who were manipulating ballots and illegally holding ex-GIs in the county jail.
805L TIL two esteemed scientists suspected time traveling culprits to be sabotaging mankind’s discovery of the Higgs boson.