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TIL after a botched execution by lethal injection in which the condemned man writhed in pain for over 30 minutes the warden stated that the condemmed man was actually just “stretching to see a clock in the death chamber”

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XXRX TIL scientists in Berlin asked adults to play Super Mario 64 over a period of 2 months for 30 minutes a day. The group showed increases of grey matter, demonstrating “the direct causal link between video gaming and a volumetric brain increase.”
8RKL TIL The guy who invented autopilot also founded the Mile High Club
ZpjGD TIL the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has computers that still run on Windows 3.1. They recently posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator with preference given to those who also had MS-DOS experience.
grAw8 TIL Albert Göring, the younger brother of prominent Nazi leader Hermann Göring, was opposed to Nazism, and helped many Jews escape Germany. He was shunned in post-war Germany because of his family name, and died without any public recognition.
oGJ8 TIL Mount Mitchell, highest in the eastern US, is named after Elisha Mitchell, geologist and climber. He fell to his death at the nearby waterfall, now named “Mitchell Falls.”