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TIL the Kübler-Ross "Five Stages of Grief" model originated from her work with terminally ill patients grieving their own deaths

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lxP5 TIL A former Israeli nuclear technician revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by a Mossad agent, where he was drugged and abducted by Israeli intelligence agents.
LkejV TIL that a skinny person has a more inefficient/slow metabolism rather than a fast metabolism
6bLQ TIL When writing an SAT essay, you can make up ‘facts’ and misattribute quotations; the graders can’t mark off for incorrect facts.
LZ6p TIL Deceased actor Anton Yelchin actually received a recall notice for the faulty park setting on his Chrysler the month before it cost him his life. He then received another recall notice three days after his death.
1jDP TIL In 1997 Morgan Freeman offered to cover the cost of prom for a Mississippi school that held two racially segregated proms every year, provided that the one Freeman would be covering would just be one racially integrated prom. This offer was refused until 2008.