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TIL of Joe Arridy who was a 23-year-old man with an IQ score of 46 and the mind of a six-year-old who was wrongfully convicted and executed in 1939. He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die". He smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.

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nWyP7 TIL that the rarest event ever recorded was the radioactive decay of xenon-124 (an isotope of the element xenon used in flash lamps and ion thrusters in spacecraft), which was detected by a dark matter detector
wL6RE TIL any former President of the US not removed from office will have a lifetime of perks including pensions and Secret Service protection.
Wk0ed TIL the non-canonical "infancy gospel of Thomas" describes Jesu's childhood life. According this,Jesus cursed a boy and caused his death at the age of one,killed another kid just for bumping into him and blinded his neighbours for complaining to his parents
yVWel TIL of The Phoebus cartel. It was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of light bulbs in much of Europe and North America. The cartel tested their bulbs and fined manufacturers for bulbs that lasted more than 1,000 hours.
OG5r4 TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory