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TIL there's a 3,200 year old Egyptian tablet with excuses of people who missed work

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mWmy TIL Family Guy creator Seth Macfarlane was booked on the first plane that hit the World Trade Centre on 9/11 but missed the flight by 10 minutes because his travel agent wrote the wrong time on his itinerary.
d8nWQ TIL of a Florida Man who asked to show his penis to the jury to bolster his defense that he accidentally asphyxiated his gf during oral sex
0dvAA TIL "Union Pacific" retroactively won the first Palme d'Or. It was awarded by a jury in 2002, from a selection of films originally in competition at the cancelled 1939 Cannes Festival.
a5lM TIL that the same Russian man that created the instrument called the theremin, also created a listening device in 1945 that hung embedded inside a wooden plaque in the US embassy for seven years. It was called “The Thing”
yvwX TIL the author of “I Am Legend” and the creator of “Bill & Ted” are father and son.