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TIL approximately 7% of lethal injection executions are botched in the United States.

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panA TIL that Sergey Tuganov died after winning a £3,000 bet that he could have sex with 2 women continuously for 12 hours. He used an entire bottle of Viagra and dies from a heart attack
16aD4 TIL that The Ramones took their name from Paul McCartney's fake name that he used to check into hotel room's during the height of The Beatles fame.
m7QM TIL that East Germany created its own cola drink. Vita-Cola’s sales almost disappeared after the fall of the Berlin Wall brought Coke and Pepsi into the East. It is still the most popular cola in Thuringia, making the German state one of the few places in the world where Coca-Cola is not the leader.
1aO1W TIL in 2014, scientist Michael J. Smith published a study on where it’s most and least painful to get stung by a bee. Most painful: nostril, lip, and penis shaft. Least painful: skull, middle toe tip, and arm. He won an IgNobel Prize.
v17M8 TIL in Belgium and France, Farmers still recover tens of thousands of unexploded shells and ordinance From WW1 that get pushed up by normal ground shifting (frost thrust, etc) and plowed up in farming fields. They call it "The Iron Harvest". They expect this to continue for hundreds of years.