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TIL that the US first used gas chambers to execute prisoners in 1924, 15 years before Nazi Germany. In 2015, Oklahoma introduced nitrogen gas as an alternative execution method.

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oRkBo TIL that Donald Duck has a twin sister: Della Duck
DMgJ TIL Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia all have a higher proportion of women in parliament than the USA does in congress
KOvYw TIL that parmesan cheese is the third most shoplifted item in Italy
8eJX4 TIL: Amniotic fluid dries into a fern pattern on a slide on its own without anything added to it
yrQe TIL: There is a tree in Africa that is called “Bloodwood trees” because its sap is blood red.