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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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QJloe TIL of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear plant worker and whistleblower. On November 13, 1974, she set out to meet a reporter to go public with evidence of extensive safety violations. She was later found dead; her car appeared to have been run off the road and the documents she had with her were missing.
oB1Zr TIL that the ‘Three Little Pigs’ in the Green Jellÿ 1993 hit song were voiced by musicians Les Claypool of Primus, Maynard James Keenan of Tool, and actor/comedian Pauly Shore
w1w6 TIL that Stanley Kubrick was interested in directing a film adaption of Arthur C Clark’s Childhoods End, but the rights were already taken, so he ended up collaborating with Clark on expanding a short story, The Sentinel into what became 2001: A Space Odyssey
Brgk TIL in 2008, more than 200 marijuana plants were found growing inside Miami’s Mall of the Americas.
nJBW TIL that in 1991, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad’s son killed 2 people while driving. He was only ticketed for improper lane usage & fined $15.