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TIL of Joseph Paul Jernigan, a murderer who agreed to donate his body to science prior to his execution in 1993. Jernigan’s body was encased, frozen, and cut into 1,851 slices. Images of those cuts are now used by medical students and radiologists as a human anatomy correlate for CT and MRI images.

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aZ0Z TIL Super Bowl performers have a strict 12 minute time limit so most performers try and squeeze as much as they can in that given time frame. Not Michael Jackson. After exploding onto stage, he stood still, staring at the world for 90 seconds.
kOX5g TIL that the first nuclear explosion almost occurred by accident in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Dr. Richard Feynman, a physicist who was working on the Manhattan Project, discovered that the military's "need to know" security resulted in a dangerous amount of uranium nitrate being stored with uranium-235.
xj57 TIL Kevin Spacey is a gifted impersonator
4VEw TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
BrQoy TIL that at WWII, Brazil was fighting alongside the Allies in Italy. Three Brazilian soldiers fought against a large German party until running out of o ammo and dying. When the Germans discovered they were only three soldiers, they buried them and added the inscription: "To three Brazilian heroes"