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TIL that Martha Stewart is banned from entering the UK.

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OGMJR TIL of the Love Canal Chemical Disaster where they built a school on a chemical dump site and eventually 950 residents were evacuated in Niagara Falls, New York
51en TIL a formation of larch trees in the shape of a swastika was discovered in Germany in 1992. The formation, only visible in the fall, went unnoticed for 60 years. After that discovery, other forest swastikas were found in Germany and beyond.
XEkpj TIL William Hare and William Burke ran a boardinghouse where they murdered the tenants and sold the bodies to anatomy schools for dissections. After murdering 16 people and being detained, Hare confessed and was offered immunity. Burke was sentenced to hang and his corpse was publicly dissected.
rNo70 TIL Scribes at the chancellery of Florence were allowed to use their superior's signature when drafting office mail. Niccolo Machiavelli's signature appears on chancellery mail even after 1512, the year he was fired and replaced, believed to be "a subtle act of defiance" towards their new boss
VAkD TIL Scientists in Japan have found a way to visualize images from dreams using MRI scans