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TIL the Guillotine remained the official capital punishment of France until 1981, the last beheading occuring in 1977

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Bg4Zk TIL Sister Rosetta Tharpe. "The original soul sister" &"The Godmother of rock and roll" She was among the first gospel musicians to appeal to rhythm and blues and rock and roll audiences, and use heavy distortion on her electric guitar, opening the way to the rise of electric blues.
oooA TIL in 2000, the destroyer USS The Sullivans was the target of a failed terror plot in the Port of Aden; the bombers’ suicide boat was so overloaded with explosives that it sank. The culprits were able to salvage the explosives, and 9 months later, used them to attack the USS Cole in the same port.
69LWZ TIL Chicago’s first permanent non-indigenous resident was a trader named Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
awjYy TIL that the Soviet Union women's rugby team sold smuggled vodka to pay for their 1991 World Cup expenses and Customs didn't issue any enforcement due to a language barrier
YGmv TIL that, with the exception of 2004, the Nickelodeon specials “Kids Pick the President” have correctly predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1988.