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TIL the man responsible for beheading and cannibalizing another man on a bus in Canada was released in 2015 and currently living free.

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gro5A TIL Mel Blanc, while having a career almost entirely with Warner Brothers, had two Disney voice rolls: A few hiccups for the mute character Gideon the Cat in Pinocchio (1940), as well as voicing his Looney Tunes characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
XJ4D TIL that people in Rome who wanted to kill themselves could apply to the Senate, and if their reasons were judged sound they were then given hemlock for free
oR1DA TIL people with blue eyes indicate a lack of melanin. Eye color is directly related to the amount of melanin in the front layers of the iris. People with brown eyes have a large amount of melanin in the iris. It's believed blue eyes are can be traced to one human being. Darker eyes help reflect sun.
4X65o TIL donated blood is not free; rather it is put on the market to be sold to hospitals for $180 to $300 per pint with the industry making billions in profit
R7DD8 TIL during the Apollo 11 lunar descent, Neil Armstrong, who was manually piloting the craft, heart rate was under 90bpm. After the Eagle touched down, it spiked to almost 160 bpm