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TIL charging cords and gas stations will be obsolete by 2025?!?!?!

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m1L8Y TIL in 1916, 17yr old Jesse Washington was convicted of murder in Waco. A lynch mob took him from the court and proceeded to cut off his fingers and genitals, they then burnt him to death slowly whilst the hung him by his neck, lowering and raising him in the fire to prolong his suffering.
PnJG TIL Norah Vincent, A lesbian feminist writer, once disguised herself as a man for 18 months to write a book on gender. After the experiment, she was institutionalized for depression, and stated that she never felt so glad for being a woman.
78Y4L TIL in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn's campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.
nWWbo TIL that Coca-Cola only averaged 9 bottles per day in it's first year, despite now selling 1.8 billion per day
pwxb TIL in WW1 British and American fighter pilots were not issued parachutes because they were considered cowardly.