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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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xVwo TIL that Prince recalled an album days before it’s release because he had a bad MDMA experience and thought the record was evil.
oRkm8 TIL of Agongointo-Zoungoudo. Rediscovered in 1998 in Benin, West Africa - this town of approx 50 bunkers was built 32 feet below ground level in the late 16th Century. King Dakodonou is thought to have commissioned the town to protect his kingdom in the event of an attack.
BrBEW TIL bills of $1k, $5k, $10k, and up to $100k used to be in circulation, a few of which were curtailed by Nixon in '69 to prevent them from being used in money-laundering
WkENY TIL Gravity, Forrest Gump, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Inglorious Basterds are some of the movies astronauts can watch on the International Space Station.
Pg5g TIL 12-year-old Steve Jobs called the home of Bill Hewlett (Hewlett-Packard) to request parts for building a frequency counter. Hewlett gave him the parts, then gave him a job building frequency counters.