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TIL: The last official use of a Guillotine was in 1977

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dD0b7 TIL The Mercedes Benz CLR's Flawed Design and Poorly Executed Aerodynamics Led to an Astonishing Incident During the 1999 Le Mans Race which led to the car literally taking off during the race.
b5k7 TIL for $22,000 Swiss company Algordanza will take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one. Most stones come out blue because humans contains trace amounts of boron. Occasionally diamond pops out white, yellow or black.
kJ1wW TIL that after Roman consul Publius Claudius Pulcher lost a major battle against the Carthaginians, his sister, Claudia, became infamous when, obstructed in a street blocked by poorer citizens, she wished aloud that her brother would lose another battle so as to thin the crowd.
69RAQ TIL the most common videos of the February 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor were recording by dashcam.
6Eow TIL that hiccups were an evolutionary necessity, but now they serve no purpose.