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TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote three pages of detailed instructions for how his funeral should proceed, and locked them in the White House safe. They weren’t discovered until after he was buried.

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x6l9b TIL about the movie “The Program” and a scene where college football players laid in the dividing line of traffic. Groups of teenagers tried to replicate the scene resulting in one death and two injuries. The scene was removed from all further releases of the film
eaN6 TIL - The writer of Rocky Horror Picture Show is the voice of the dad on Phineas and Ferb
eJvJ TIL when Australia abolished their inheritance tax in 1979, a disproportionate number of parents died in the week immediately after the abolition went into effect, suggesting that many of their heirs were doing everything to keep them alive just long enough for the inheritance tax to expire.
KOLkR TIL that reportedly after dying at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, General George Custer was found mutilated with sewing awls shoved in his ears and an arrow that "had been forced up his penis."
kJBm TIL That when the University of Oregon Ducks play the Oregon State Beavers, they play for “The Platypus Trophy”