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TIL: "I Fought the Law" singer/musician Bobby Fuller was found dead in a parked car, outside his LA home. No evidence of foul play or suicide was found. Neither were ruled out. For those who believed it to be murder, suspects cited have ranged from the Mafia and Charles Manson to the local P.D.

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xm51 TIL: There is a tax that called a TIF in Niagara Falls which is entirely voluntary to pay, tourists can ask to have it removed from their bills if they know about it. It pulls in roughly 15 Million a year from tourists with no regulation or tracking on where the money goes after being collected.
LQoRv TIL British rock band The Who was at Shepperton Studios filming a music video and in the adjoining studio, They were shooting the egg room scene from the movie Alien. The Director borrowed the laser from the who to make the effect with the smoke and the laser over the top of the eggs.
Lkmar TIL that The Sperm Whale have the largest brain and cerebrum of any known animals in existence, it weighs 5 times that of a humans brain! Neanderthals also had, on average, larger brains than modern humans.
NNOe TIL that a Pineapple is actually a bunch of small berries fused together into a single mass
51nR TIL That the remaining relatives of Adolf Hitler have decided not to marry or have children to end the blood line of Adolf Hitler.