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TIL about Mazzatello - 18th century Papal States preferred method of capital punishment... involves a mallet..

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4kePb TIL the term "Ass Clown" is credited to be from the movie "Office Space."
rNw00 TIL that During Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift's filming, they couldn't acquire a permit for a scene, yet they proceeded. The studio hired a scapegoat "director" to spend a night in jail, avoiding any repercussions.
lok1r TIL that the name "IPod was inspired by "2001: A Space Odyssey"
E14jx TIL of Judy Melinek, a medical examiner who identified hundreds of bodies from the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, many of which were merely scraps of flesh or pieces of limb. She was called in mid-August 2002 because they had found a foot bone on top of another skyscraper 1/5 mile away.
jNRja TIL in Iceland, if you don’t know the address to where you want your mail to go, you can hand-draw a map to your destination on the envelope