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TIL: People who turn in their drugs to the Gloucester Mass. Police Department and ask for help won’t be arrested, they’ll be rehabilitated.

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P1aDw TIL that filmmaker Preston Sturges died of a heart attack in the middle of writing his autobiography. He had planned to title his autobiography "The Events Leading Up to My Death".
VMWOk TIL that graves became 6 feet deep as a result of the plague in 1665.
R7VYQ TIL There's no "left brain vs. right brain" in terms of logic vs. creativity. The hemispherical breakdown in the brain is mostly to control a specific side of the body in terms of motor functions. Things like analytics, creativity, and other higher functions are spread out between both hemispheres.
Qo7M TIL that the last words of Peter Kürten, a serial killer executed by guillotine, said “Tell me—after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
oRY8K TIL Zak Brown, the current CEO of McLaren F1 racing, won $3,050 on Wheel of Fortune in 1984 as a teenager and spent it all on a go-kart.