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TIL: Tobey Maguire's Dad was a bankrobber in 1993

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KOEBG TIL that in 1968, John Lennon, while tripping on acid, called an emergency meeting of the Beatles to inform them that he was the second coming of Jesus Christ.
EAjW TIL the bones of notorious Auschwitz doctor and SS officer Josef Mengele are used as a teaching aid in medical forensics classes at the University of São Paulo. They were originally exhumed in 1985 in order to confirm his death.
0wZw5 TIL During World War II, the U.S. government urged Americans to save excess fat rendered from cooking and donate it to the army to produce explosives.
jNNM TIL there is a cruise ship named “The World” where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe.
N7Be6 TIL of Charondas, a Greek lawgiver from Sicily, that issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly after hunting in the countryside with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide