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TIL the embalmed head of moral philosopher Jeremy Bentham was kidnapped in 1975 by University College London students, who demanded a £100 ransom for charity. The university offered £10. The head was returned.

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9Y0oX TIL in 1864 when Congress reintroduced the Nickel currency bill they wanted the likeness of Clark on the bill, in reference to soldier William Clark, however the head of the Currency Bureau Spencer M. Clark used his own likeness, which directly led to the abolishment of the Nickel currency bill.
GAVEN TIL Pocahontas is the twelfth great-grandmother of the American actor Edward Norton.
WwV8 TIL men’s hesitance towards promiscuous women (in considering a meaningful relationship) is not based on the woman’s previous sexual behavior itself, but on the fear of being fooled and taken advantage of.
4XnDo TIL that Nazi commander Walter Rauff escaped justice for the deaths of nearly 100,000 people during WWII. He was instrumental in the implementation of the Nazis' genocide by mobile gas chamber. He died in 1984 from a heart attack as a free man in Chile. His MI5 file said he never showed any remorse.
vPNN7 TIL in May 2028 there is a 45% of an Einstein ring being observed when Alpha Centauri A passes in front of a distant red star, which would be the first ring observed due to gravitational lensing of a star by another star