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TIL The traditional "last meal" on a death row didn't begin as a compassionate act but as a way to bribe their ghost not to haunt the executioners

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jJlp TIL that Johnny Depp got matching tattoos with Damien Echols (an innocent man who spent 18 years on death row)
WlpX TIL that a 2011 survey conducted by Swiss firm Logitech found that 2% of lost TV remotes end up outside/in the car. Additionally, 4% of remotes end up in the fridge, and 8% end up in the bathroom
Yppav TIL that the US Navy engaged in only one action in the Pacific during WWI. A German commerce raider ran out of coal for its boilers and docked at Guam to resupply in 1914. Guam lacked coal, so it stayed moored for 3 years until the US entered the war in 1917, whereupon they promptly scuttled it.
a80xN TIL the SEC pays 10-30% of the fine to whistleblowers whose info leads to over $1m fines
p8X6O TIL for millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. Biphasic sleeping is mentioned as early as the 8th Century BC, and appears to have remained the dominant, natural format up until the Industrial Revolution.