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TIL That the idea for the movie Human Centipede was from a joke on how child molesters should be punished

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m1YMM TIL that Vince Guaraldi, the jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip, including their signature melody "Linus and Lucy" was a friend of the Grateful Dead, was on one of their album covers, and even sat in with the band.
R5468 TIL that, during Egypt's early dynasties, rulers were entombed in flat-topped monuments made of clay-brick called mastabas. Imhotep conceived of building a more impressive tomb for his king by stacking mastabas on top of one another, progressively making them smaller, to form Egypt's first pyramid.
waAJ TIL that a Role Playing Game company (Steve Jackson Games) was raided by the Secret Service partly because they were developing a game about hacking. This was the main influence in the foundation of the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), a non-profit digital rights group.
x6ja0 TIL: In 1865, Edouard de Laboulaye organized a meeting for a commemorative gift for the United States that would recognize the liberation of the slaves. That gift ended up being the Statue of Liberty. However by the time it was unveiled in 1886 the original meaning had been lost.
4XXdN TIL Tesla sued Top Gear for libel after Top Gear claimed their car would have run out of juice after 55 miles on the race track - without actually having driven the distance. Ironically, the 55 mile range was calculated and relayed to Top Gear by Tesla's own engineers, and Tesla lost the lawsuit.