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TIL that Wilko Johnson, British music legend and the actor that plays mute executioner Ilyn Payne in Game of Thrones has pancreatic cancer and has been given 9-10 months to live.

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kJ0W7 TIL that "The Iodine State" was South Carolina's nickname in the 1930s and even on license plates, in an effort to promote the state's vegetables as having more healthy iodine than other other state's vegetables
KaKw TIL after Lenny Bruce died cops wanted his body and death scene to look more like a junkie for news photographers. They posed him, pulled his pants down, and put a box of syringes by his body.
4Gga TIL That a drug dealer was caught running from the cops in the woods because of his light up shoes
pYBl8 TIL that Joseph Kerwin was convicted on 1904 of piracy after robbing Adelia Sweeting on a ship on Lake Erie, since this ship was judged to be in "high seas"
mbDv TIL that in over 600 committed robberies, famous Australian bushranger Ben Hall was never responsible for one death.