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TIL that Japan still executes people by hanging, with those on death row only notified the morning before the execution and are kept in solitary confinement until execution day.

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wL7Y7 TIL about CANZUK, a theoretical political and economic union of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The international body would be similar in scope to the former European Economic Community and focus on trade, foreign policy co-operation, and military co-operation between the four nations.
JYwl1 TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a speech in Milwaukee and refused to have medical treatment until he delivered his 90 minute speech, in which he showed off the bullet wound to the crowd
N74JP TIL a dispatcher who told a woman to deal with a shot and dying boy herself later received a 25,000$ settlement after suing for being fired as a dispatcher.
awL6b TIL That the brain can be fooled into seeing colour images, when a coloured grid is overlayed across a black and white image.
VK04 TIL the Melbourne Children’s Hospital has a permanent Meerkat enclosure to help cheer up the patients