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TIL Ron Artest Applied For Job At Best Buy During His Rookie Season To Get Employee Discounts

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OoZVg TIL in the Ancient Roman Empire, there were 24 hours in the day. The 24 hours were divided into equal parts 12-Light hours and 12-Dark hours. Therefore the length of an hour would change based on the seasons.
VM8y4 TIL that in 19th century England, if your corpse wasn’t claimed in a hospital or if you died in a place where you couldn’t be identified, you might have been sold to a school or hospital so doctors could practice anatomy. Some priests even sold bodies to gravediggers who sold them to hospitals.
v11ZK TIL Guy Fawkes and his co-conspirators were sentenced to be dragged behind horses until dead. Then their genitals cut off and burnt before their eyes before their dead bodies were decapitated
nWjOG TIL Catherine O'Hara's yell of "KEVIN!" in Home Alone happened because she forgot the actual line, "We left Kevin home alone!"
e08ag Although coral reefs cover just 0.1% of the seafloor, they provide a home for a quarter of all marine life.