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TIL that Ben Franklin had 10+ bodies buried in his basement, which he probably obtained via the black market, in order to study human anatomy.

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717 TIL that 99% of Estonians have blue eyes.
xVjdb TIL that in 2012, Facebook altered the number of positive and negative posts in the news feeds of 689,003 randomly selected users to see if they could make the users more happy or sad. They published the results of this experiment in an academic paper.
NnW1 TIL all people convicted in the 1984 Bhopal MIC Gas disaster, which killed 3,000 people and injured over 500,000, got a total fine of $2,000
oR9gW TIL Admiral Sir John Fisher proposed twice in 1904 and in 1908 to "Copenhagen" (pre-emptively strike) the Imperial German Navy
v1NEj TIL that Hawaii's first queen's first time running the country was marked by a smallpox outbreak and that the decisive action she took to stop the spread (closing all ports) drew the ire of rich sugarcane plantation owners and eventually lead to the coup that overthrew her.