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TIL Electricity was introduced to Ethiopia in 1896 after Emperor Menelik II ordered two newly invented electric chairs as a form of humane capital punishment and realized they were useless in his country without electricity

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7rakM TIL back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide. In the US, back pain costs over $50bn in missed work days, per years.
7bZp TIL Ivar the Boneless killed a rival Viking leader by snapping his ribs at his spine and pulling them out so they resembled wings, then wrenching the victim’s lungs out through the gaping cavity in his back. This particular method of execution became known as the Blood Eagle.
6b6X TIL that till the 1990s, the French used to run mobile brothels to supply their soldiers on the front lines with prostitutes.
8eQDK TIL if you're unmarried when you turn 25 in Denmark, it is customary for your friends and family to cover you in cinnamon
kKNd TIL that Sky ran the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day” 13 times consecutively for 24 hours on February 2nd to celebrate the annual Pennsylvania Groundhog Day holiday.