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TIL Richard Attenborough, the actor who played John Hammond in the Jurassic Park movie, is the eldest brother of narrator David Attenborough.

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4LKJ TIL that in 1983 a skull fragment was found in a bog in England and was reported to the authorities. They then pulled in a man suspected of murdering his wife who confessed to the act. The fragment was found to have belonged to a woman that died in 250 CE and the man was still tried and convicted.
WoPY TIL that in 2009 Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman, said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” when confronted about the search engine’s privacy policies.
VEZ TIL George Takei decided to sell a clip of himself saying “Oh Myyy” as a ringtone in order to fund a production of his musical Allegiance
4kW7g Today I learned that the Cathars were among the earliest targets of the Inquisition in the 12th century
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