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TIL The last person executed for witchcraft was a man in Somalia in 2020

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5YEYp TIL the 1985 film "Better Off Dead" was semi-biographical. The writer-director really did have a girlfriend break up with him to go out with the captain of the ski team. He really was heartbroken and suicidal over it...and the paperboy that wanted his two dollars...yeah... that was a thing too!
VM81k TIL: America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who set forth the then revolutionary concept that the lands that Christopher Columbus sailed to in 1492 were part of a separate continent.
QJMYp TIL every major vehicle flown from Cape Canaveral has been wired with a remote explosive destruct system to be used if the vehicle should travel off course and towards populated areas
6PjW TIL there is a species of bird which guides humans to beehives, so they can feast on the bee larvae after the human takes the honey.
y8e8 TIL that in 1996 the NYT had the name of the winner in the elections as a clue and it worked regardless of the candidate.