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TIL Janis Joplin left $2500 in her will to throw a “wake party” once she died. The party included brownies laced with hashish being passed out to unsuspecting guests.

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4X7E5 TIL there is a species of fossil sea turtle named after author Terry Pratchett. He wrote a series of fantasy books about a world carried on the back of a giant turtle.
eXEk TIL that people who eat spicy food have a reduced risk of dying from diseases like cancer, ischemic heart disease, and respiratory illness.
KONlR TIL that Naftaly Frenkel was a prisoner in a Soviet Union work camp who proposed that inmates' food rations be linked to their rate of production. He was promoted to guard and eventually commandant. He would later oversee construction of the White Sea–Baltic Canal by forced labor.
VEwB TIL that in Disney universe, if an animal character wears clothes, he or she can own an animal character that doesn’t (courtesy of dr Neil DeGrasse Tyson)
rNN9e TIL in 1999, Danish physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 38 mph (61 kmph), and was later able to stop it completely, manipulate it, even move it to a different location.