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TIL serial killer Ed Kemper requested "death by torture" as punishment for his crimes at his trial.

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v1EAB TIL: That Melora Hardin, the actress that plays Jan Levinson-Gould on The Office, was originally cast to play Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future. When Eric Stolz was fired and Micheal J Fox was hired for the role, she was replaced because she was too tall for Fox.
RoA8 TIL in 1983, a small town in Missouri was permanently evacuated after high levels of dioxin was discovered in soil samples. It was discovered that a man hired to oil the dirt roads to keep dust down had used waste from a company making Agent Orange.
0dvPy TIL there's special blood for babies
nWLaB TIL - Venus is the only planet that doesn't spin counterclockwise
lK8N TIL After Tesla redesigned Edison company’s motors, he asked for 50,000 Edison promised him. Edison replied “Tesla, you don’t understand american humor”. Tesla immediately resigned