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TIL in 1905, a murderer was beheaded. After the guillotine fell, the severed head made eye contact with a doctor who called his name.

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5XZR TIL, when Green day singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s father died when he was a child. He ran home from the funeral and locked himself in his room. When his mother followed him home and asked him to come out. He told her to “wake me up when september ends.”
jN1JM TIL in 1850s British explorer Sir Richard Burton called Somalis superstitious for believing mosquitos caused malaria
E1nd0 TIL of Carl Laemmle, who migrated to the US in 1884. He started one of the first movie theaters in Chicago, challenged Thomas Edison's monopoly on films, began advertising stars to increase their earnings, founded Universal and sponsored hundreds of Jews to emigrate from Nazi Germany to the US.
nVL9 TIL that pro-wrestler John Cena has granted 400 wishes for the Make-a-Wish foundation, becoming the first celebrity to do so.
Men9b TIL 16th century English writers added silent letters to many words to better link them to Greek or Latin, even if no such link existed, such as the b in debt or s in island