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TIL while running for Sheriff in 1970, Hunter S. Thompson shaved his head so that he could call the conservative, crew-cut wearing incumbent his “long haired opponent.”

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5BDD TIL that serial killer James French’s last words in the electric chair were “How’s this for your headline? French Fries.”
X0rkP TIL there’s a rare form of cancer called NUT carcinoma that can form anywhere in the body, but is caused by a mutation in a gene that encodes the “NUT” protein that is expressed almost exclusively in testis.
AD16l TIL while the chloroplasts of nearly all known photosynthetic eukaryotes derive ultimately from the a single cyanobacterium taken in by a eukaryote a billion years ago, there are 3 species of amoeba which had taken on a cyanobacterium more recently and whose endosymbiont is called a chromatophore
69m88 TIL that common consumer fireworks can kill you if you're underwater with them when they detonate
wKnY TIL Christopher Lee; Hunted Nazis, is related to Charlemagne and explained to Peter Jackson how a man sounds when stabbed in the back while filming LOTR. Since he had witnessed it before.