› added 12 years ago

73

TIL that Texas keeps a record of the last words of death row prisoners on its website. Here is the latest entry…

Read more tdcj.state.tx.us

via reddit.com

eZxL TIL of an actor named Del Close who died in 1999. In his will he bequeathed his skull to a local theatre so he could still play the part of Yorick, a dead court jester, in productions of Hamlet. However, no one wanted to remove his head after death, robbing him of one of his final wishes.
rRGbe TIL Ernesto Miranda, the man behind the ruling that forces cops to read your "Miranda" Rights, was later killed in a bar fight. The murderer was read his miranda rights, did not talk to the cops, and got away with no charges.
dDRX7 TIL having nostalgia for a time you've never known is called Anemoia.
e0Xbk TIL that when Truman told Stalin about the Manhattan project in July of 1945, Stalin displayed little reaction, since Stalin had known about the project for almost 4 years before Truman, and he arguably knew more about it than Truman himself did.
y9PJ TIL that Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus, has a warm ocean with ongoing hydrothermal activity. The first ever discovered outside of Earth.