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TIL that in 2022 Jeremy Clarkson wrote that he dreamed of the day Meghan Markle would be paraded naked and pelted with excrement, making reference to a scene from Game of Thrones - despite having referenced the same scene while defending her in 2018, claiming it was what her critics wanted to do.

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YpK4v TIL of Benito "Benny" Agrelo, a 15 y.o. born with a malfunctioning liver, underwent 2 liver transplants, and took 8 different medications 3 times/day since age 8, with major side effects. He stopped the meds, knowing he would die, but the state tried to force him to resume. He won in court and died.
R7kB1 TIL Aretha Franklin's voice was designated a natural resource by the State of Michigan in 1985
41aN TIL that Zurich is the richest city in the world in 2015 (based on GDP per capita)
yQ7K8 TIL of HMP Peterhead, a prison that was known as “Scotland’s Gulag; a prison of no hope”. A report in 2005 found that electricity had just been added to all the cells and human waste was still manually emptied. It closed in 2013.
VB7dp TIL the $327.6 million Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in 1999 due to a unit conversion error. NASA's team used metric units, while Lockheed Martin used Imperial units for calculations, causing the spacecraft to enter Mars' atmosphere too low and burn up.