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TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote the song "Jeremy" because he thought it was important to give meaning to the actions of Jeremy Wade Delle, a high school student who shot himself in front of his English class in 1991.

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w651 TIL Carl Sagan’s anatomically correct naked man and woman were censored on the Voyager spacecraft Golden Record because critics found the nudity offensive.
D1EdP TIL 19 Dutch prisons closed in 2013 due to lack of criminals. In 2016, Dutch prisons imported 240 prisoners from Norway just to keep their facilities full. Low incarceration is related to relaxed drug laws, rehabilitation over punishment, and ankle monitors which allow for re-entry into jobs.
E1OLW TIL a legal loophole in the UK allows alcohol to be sold without a license on a train in motion. An unlicensed distillery exploited this by setting up in a disused railway building, obtaining a steam train, and selling gin to customers while they road it back and forth from the distillery.
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QNvxa TIL that experimental/psychedelic band The Flaming Lips released 13 copies of a 24 hour song in a $5,000 human skull.