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TIL that Earth Day was conceived by a Wisconsin Senator named Gaylord Nelson after witnessing a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California

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awL0b TIL A prequel to the film Gladiator entered development in 2001, and is still in development as of 2019
P4Ve TIL that there is only one city in Canada’s Yukon Territory.
kmwB TIL in 1978, Roman Polanski, charged with sexual abuse of a 13-year-old, agreed with prosecutors to a plea bargain under which he would serve no more than 90 days. When the judge did not accept the plea bargain, Polanski fled the country. The victim has said she does not want Polanski prosecuted.
XEkpj TIL William Hare and William Burke ran a boardinghouse where they murdered the tenants and sold the bodies to anatomy schools for dissections. After murdering 16 people and being detained, Hare confessed and was offered immunity. Burke was sentenced to hang and his corpse was publicly dissected.
16XoO TIL one of the influences of Austin Powers was the BBC's Adam Adamant Lives! television series, whose protagonist was a Victorian era spy, who was frozen in 1902, and then revived in the year 1966