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TIL Casey Jones sacrificed himself in order to slow his train to save his passengers from serious injury or death. He was the only fatality.

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pjQ TIL, Kurt Cobain overdosed on heroin, was injected with antidote by Courtney Love, the proceeded perform at a concert without telling anybody
gMKW7 TIL three "spec scripts" -- an unsolicited screenplay written in hopes it will be eventually purchased by a film studio -- have gone on to win the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay: Thelma & Louise (1990), Good Will Hunting (1994), and American Beauty (1998).
b68QN TIL that harvard is named after it's first benefactor. JOHN HARVARD, a clergyman who assumed the role of a minister in colonial new england. his deathbed bequest to 'schoale or colledge' is so gratefully received that masachusetts bay colony ordered the college to be bamed after him.
JYxoj TIL Countess Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova was convicted of killing 38 female serfs by beating and torturing them to death. Imprisoned at Ivanovsky Convent in Moscow; for the first 11 years, she was chained in a basement dungeon without a window and only given a candle during meals.
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