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TIL that Vatican tradition forbids performing an autopsy on a pope after death.

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b9gkj TIL that it took nearly 2 hours to execute convicted murderer Joseph Wood. An hour after being injected with midazolam & hydromorphone (15 times the lethal dose), the prisoner was still alive. Lawyers filed an emergency appeal to halt the execution. Ten minutes after he died, the appeal was denied.
rYy0 TIL that, after writing “I’m In Love with my Car,” Roger Taylor was so fond of the song that he locked himself in a cupboard until Freddie Mercury agreed to release it on the B-side of Bohemian Rhapsody’s single.
rRoQ0 TIL A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess was written over a period of three weeks after he was misdiagnosed with brain cancer and given a year to live.He decided to spend that year writing five novels to provide for his wife after his death. Ironically, he outlived her.
69M4m TIL about the Rubens tube, also known as a flame tube, invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905. A tube capped on both ends is filled with gas has 100 tiny flames that creates soundwave visualization
Mend8 TIL that stress and fatigue are the main causes for experiencing a deja vu