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TIL the 181 year old corpse of philosopher Jeremy Bentham attended a board meeting at the college he founded and was recorded as “present but not voting”

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nWL0r TIL fingerprinting was first introduced in British India in 1900, developed by Bengali Police to collect prisoners’ fingerprints. The first UK fingerprint bureau was established in Scotland Yard in 1901.
xVeeD TIL Belgium has so many political parties, that they faced a problem when 11 parties received a significant amount of votes in 2010. It eventually took 541 days for a majority of parties to agree to work with each other.
BgR7b TIL: In 1994, an American teenager Michael Fay was convicted of spray-painting a bunch of cars and was caned as punishment. It was such a large issue at the time that the White House attempted to prevent it. A year later, the Simpsons released "Bart vs. Australia", which based on the event.
j6LYE TIL: Fourteen children have suffocated to death inside cedar chests between 1977 and 2015. In 1996, The Lane Company recalled 12 million cedar chests with latches that automatically locked the lid when it was closed.
R5dg4 TIL that the largest single structure sand dune in North America exists in. . .Idaho.