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TIL In the Judge Dredd universe, corpses are taken to “Resyk Centers” where they are recycled for food, manufacturing and organ donation. Funeral services are frequently held at Resyk so the bereaved can say goodbye to their loved ones, and purchase reasonably priced souvenirs at the gift shop.

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a5vA TIL that when the Oxford College was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the dining hall. This plan had been passed down from one Forester to the next for over five hundred years saying “You don’t cut them oaks. Them’s for the College Hall.”
DGmj TIL in response to an interview where Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was asked what white people could do to support the Black Panthers, he replied that they could form a White Panther Party. The WPP was founded thereafter.
66N8 TIL on New Years Eve of 1999, Brad Pitt played a prank where he bribed the Mexican Government to cut the power and phone lines of a resort and send in troops to arrest one of his friends on drug charges.
ROQ9 TIL: Mike Myers was horrified when clips from Wayne’s World were mixed with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody video. “they’ve just whizzed on a Picasso.”. The band responded simply saying, “Thank you for using our song.” This shocked Myers, “Thank you for even letting me touch the hem of your garments!”
VMPWQ TIL - Walt Disney negotiated the rights to build a nuclear reactor in 1967, after hiring a German physicist, Heinz Haber, to lay the groundwork for research into nuclear energy, which would be used to power Disneyland.