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TIL: The first use of the term “Genocide” and as a crime against humanity in a legal context was the Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial led by chief US prosecutor Ben Ferencz

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GY95 TIL Graham crackers were originally invented to prevent masturbation
grd98 TIL U.S. President Grover Cleveland's granddaughter Philippa Foot is credited with inventing the thought experiment known as the Trolley Problem.
GXxj TIL after outlaw Big George Nose was killed, the doctor’s performing the autopsy turned his skull into an ashtray and his skin into shoes. The doctor that kept the skull was the first female doctor in Wyoming and the doctor that kept the shoes wore them to his inauguration as governor of Wyoming
1Ek7 TIL in 2002 a 15-year-old boy tried to replicate the attacks on 9/11 by crashing a plane into an office building
e0XDL TIL that "TMZ" stands for the Thirty Mile Zone around Los Angeles within which film crews don't get paid overnight expenses