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TIL 1% Of All Americans Are In Jail

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oR1r7 TIL Walt Disney voiced Mickey Mouse
jNvDX TIL that 3 years after his death in 1658, Oliver Cromwell's enbalmed body was exhumed and executed. His head was mounted on a spike on Westminster Hall for 25 years until a storm blew it down. A guard found it and took it home. It was then in private possession until being secretly buried in 1960.
ndGB TIL of Arthur Ganson’s “Machine with Concrete”, a kinetic sculpture of 12 connected gear pairs with the last gear stuck in concrete. It can still turn though, due to gear reduction that cuts the rotational speed by 1/50th for each gear set. The last gear will take over 2 trillion years to turn once.
b9Z5p TIL Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling's final project was Fantasy Park, a 1975 radio concert. It was a 48-hour long rock concert edited together from dozens of separate live acts, including The Beatles. Presented as an actual concert, stations reportedly received calls asking how to get to the show.
MeeJ0 TIL of Richard Ricci, a suspect in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart. He died of an aneurysm while in police custody in 2002 after two months of proclaiming his innocence and enduring interrogations. His wife never fully recovered from the heartbreak and committed suicide in 2015.