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TIL Christine Chubbuck was an American television news reporter who was the first person to commit suicide live on television. Her death inspired the 1976 film Network.

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m1lXY TIL about George Maledon, the "Prince of Hangmen." A hangman for the Federal court in Arkansas, he worked for "Hanging" Judge Parker. In 22 years he hanged over 60 men and shot 2 escapees. Asked if he regretted his job, he said "No, I have never hanged a man who came back to have the job done over."
ZYpR TIL that an ignostic is “someone refuses to discuss whether God exists until the terms are defined.”
xVRm0 TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci fully intended for his works to be published and left them to his pupil, who couldn't get through the writing and only managed to compile a treatise on painting in his lifetime, with the rest of papers sold off by disinterested heirs
4kRyJ TIL the screw thread is believed to have been invented around 400 BCE, by Archytas of Tarentum, a Greek philosopher sometimes called “the father of mechanics.” The general principle of the screw was applied early on, in cities like Pompeii, to extract olive oil and grape juice
VBLRp TIL Delta Airlines is named after the Mississippi Delta Region and its first hub of commercial service was Monroe, Louisiana