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TIL that George Jung, from the movie ‘Blow’, is getting released from prison this year, in November.

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d88m8 TIL, in 1946 Ian Fleming built his estate in Jamaica on a beach clifftop and named it Goldeneye. He wrote all his James Bond novels there in January and February each year. A number of Bond films were filmed nearby. After his death, it was sold to Bob Marley.
166rD TIL that 42% of motorcyclists who died in an accident were drunk
R7Zva TIl of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who after researching international black market organ trade, made the "unusual" decision" to share her findings with law enforcement including the FBI, which later resulted in several arrests.
ADlWn TIL that the modern fairy tale version of 'Beauty and the Beast' can be traced back almost 300 years to French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneu in 1740, but research seems to indicate that the story of Beauty And The Beast is about 4,000 years old (as is Rumpelstiltskin).
ADLew TIL that a college professor believed that US Pres. Zachary Taylor's death in office (1850) was an assassination. Taylor was exhumed in the late 1980s, but the medical examiner found no signs of poisioning.