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TIL the parents of 17-year-old Jesse Shipley who had died in a car crash only learned that authorities had kept his brain when his classmates went on a field trip to a morgue and saw a jar labeled Jesse Shipley that had a brain in it.

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0b55 TIL the real Top Gun School gives a $5 fine to anyone in the staff that quotes the movie.
egwD TIL that the phrase “writing on the wall” comes from a story in the Bible where a disembodied hand warns of the end of a kings reign.
DEve TIL that when the UK declared war on Japan after being attacked in 1941, Winston Churchill notified the Japanese government with a politely written letter. He said later, “Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
PXNL TIL Comedy Central only agreed to air the word “shit” uncensored in the South Park episode “It Hits the Fan” (the first South Park to do so) if the word was used an absurdly high number of times. The episode had 200 total shits, 162 spoken, 38 written.
neeQB Shopkeeper removing the word, ‘Italian’ from the sign above his restaurant in Soho, London during WW II, after anti-Italian riots throughout Britain.