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TIL Stephen Hawking was the only person to ever portray themself in Star Trek

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9glM TIL that Luke Magnotta, a 30-year-old former porn actor, murdered, dismembered, and cannibalized a Chinese exchange student, posted a video of it online, then mailed the body parts to various Canadian political parties.
WkgPX TIL the last English knight to be publicly degraded (stripped of knighthood) was Francis Mitchell in 1628. He’d committed extortion. His spurs were broken and thrown out, his belt cut, and his sword broken over his head. He was called "no longer a Knight but Knave" and led to the Tower of London.
gM5dA TIL a nearly worthless Mormon owned cow precipitated the start of the US war with the Lakota.
loe8A TIL The Silence of the Lambs is not only one of only three movies in history to sweep the top five Oscars, it was the first film in its genre to ever win Best Picture.
NXXdQ TIL Joseph Armand Bombardier invented the snowmobile after his son died of appendicitis when a blizzard prevented him from getting him to a hospital in time.