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TIL That upon his death Ben Franklin left 1,000 pounds to gather interest in a trust for 200 years..

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W7wjA TIL of Sir William Payne-Gallwey, a British MP who died after falling on a turnip.
nePj9 TIL Health Officials are recommending glory holes for casual sex, so that less contact is made to spread the virus.
ye4a TIL The accent that is heard in old American movies is called the Transatlantic accent and was not indicative of the actual spoken accent of that era, but taught in boarding schools and used by actors in movies.
pKE4 TIL Ancient Rome was the first jurisdiction where euthanasia was allowed. Citizens could apply to the Senate and get free poison.
GY9wj TIL of Betsy Aardsma, a graduate student who was stabbed at the Penn State University library. Because the wound was so small and the fact that she was wearing a red dress, no one noticed that she was stabbed until after she died, and EMTs thought she was suffering a seizure. The case is unsolved.