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TIL Troy Leon Gregg, a death row inmate in Georgia, escaped the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight that very same night.

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wLXrJ TIL that during the 80 Years War the Dutch defeated the invading Spanish by flooding their cities and farm lands. When winter arrived, Dutch soldiers used ice skates to quickly advance, fire muskets and retreat quickly to reload. The Spanish were then lured to, and fell through, thin ice.
QJvkk Today I learned there's a term for diarrhea after high intensity running "Runners Trots"
mjlO TIL the longest jail term in the US to a single person on multiple counts was to Oklahoma child rapist Charles Scott Robinson in 1994. He was sentenced to a total of 30,000 years, 5,000 years for each of the six counts against him.
Jjom TIL in 1985, the writers of Sesame Street decided that the adult characters needed to be shown to believe Big Bird about Snuffleupagus due to concerns that if they did not, children would fear that adults/parents would not believe them about an adult abusing them if they told.
e0vGg TIL that helium isn’t the only gas capable of changing the sound of your voice. Sulfur hexaflouride makes your voice deeper!