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TIL of Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

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0dvKM TIL that every single bus in America must stop at all railroad crossings, open their door and driver's side window and turn down the radio ... all based upon ONE SINGLE crash involving a school bus and a freight train 86 years ago in Utah that left two dozen people dead.
9w4km TIL that the voice of Woody Woodpecker was done by his Creator's wife. She had to do so by submitting an anonymous audition tape after Walter Lantz rejected the idea that a woman could voice the male character.
law5 TIL the first recorded mention of whiskey is from an Irishman in 1405 dying of alcohol poisoning during Christmas.
yQd1l TIL of Ada Roe, who was 3 years old when the American civil war began (1861) and lived long enough to see the moon landing (1969).
dE5r TIL of Gerald Mellin committed suicide by tying one end of a rope to a tree and putting the other end around his neck, he then drove away from the tree in his Aston Martin. He was decapitated.