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TIL death row prisoners of Tennessee can choose between death by lethal injection or death by electric chair

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9wE0D TIL of parasitic castration, a strategy of parasites, where the host's ability to reproduce is destroyed by the parasite, to its benefit
BYyx TIL Nicolas Cage had magic mushrooms with his cat, Lewis. Seeing Lewis eating the shrooms, Cage responded, “What the heck, I better do it with him.” Cage recalls laying in bed for hours and staring at Lewis, as Lewis stared back. Cage concluded sagely, “and I had no doubt that he was my brother.”
Brr0y TIL Root beer is flavored with the sassafras tree, and that the same plant is the source of safrole(the precursor for MDMA ecstacy).
rReQd TIL about an Indian art called Shatavadhana, where a person has to remember and answer questions on a stage from 100 people simultaneously while dealing with distractions in a round robin manner. The tasks vary from making up a poem spontaneously to keeping a count of a bell ringing at random.
ywVa TIL when the ex UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher died, the song “Ding dong! The witch is dead! reached number 2 in the UK charts.