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TIL in 1740, a 16-Year-Old English Boy, having been convicted of rape and murder, was hanged by the neck for 20 minutes. After being cut down, his body was sent to be dissected when he began to show signs of life. After making a full recovery, his sentence was commuted to exile.

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AN9l7 TIL Joaquin Phoenix's older brother, River Phoenix, was set to play Arthur Rimbaud in Total Eclipse (1995), Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995) & Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). After his death in 1993, all these roles ultimately went to Leonardo DiCaprio.
Lk4nd TIL after collaborating on the intervention of the atomic bomb, the US promised they would share all of their research with the UK, as the UK had done so. However, the US lost the signed agreement and went back on its word. This meant the UK was the only country to invent nuclear weapons twice.
Ojxa TIL of Angle-grinder man. A superhero dressed anonymous vigilante who would offer a free wheel clamp removal service in London and Kent.
lYXG TIL when the girl featured on the front cover of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Contra’ album artwork found out about the illegal use of her 26 year old photo, she sued the band. She found out when her daughter brought home a copy of the album one day.
voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.