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TIL serial killer James French’s last words on the electric chair before being executed were: “How’s this for your headline? ‘French Fries’”

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47Jw TIL Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” only reached #9 on the US charts when the song was first released in 1976, but reached #2 in 1992 after Wayne’s World came out
v1pQr TIL of "hunger stones": the Central European practice of marking river levels with carved stones during droughts, to warn future generations that there will be a famine if the water level again gets low enough to see the carving. This has been done at least since 1115, and as recently as 2018.
KLXa TIL That the prototypes for the first Stealth fighter were produced in the late 1970’s and cost just $35 million for the entire program. The aircraft, called “HAVE BLUE”, were designed by just a handful of engineers, and put together using left over parts from other more widely known aircraft.
8epp8 TIL that the 2003 Somaliland presidential election, which was hailed as one of the freest and most transparent democratic exercises ever staged in the Horn of Africa, saw the candidate from a minority clan win by a margin of only 0.00016%, or 80 votes, over two other contenders
D1Z4j TIL after Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob Squarepants, graduated high school he worked as a fry cook during summers at a restaurant in Islesford, Maine known as Islesford Dock Restaurant. The restaurant would later be the inspiration for the Krusty Krab in the show.