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TIL: The last official use of a Guillotine was in 1977
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TIL that according to US Middle East Specialist Edgar Wright, an unknown individual impersonated Harry Truman's voice on the telephone and swayed the President of Haiti into voting for a motion at the UN.
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TIL that Times New Roman was commissioned by a British newspaper called The Times.
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TIL There’s a building in London that reflects the Sun so perfectly, it literally melts cars.
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TIL That the idea for the movie Human Centipede was from a joke on how child molesters should be punished
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TIL that in 1921, Frederick B. Banting figured out how to extract insulin from a dog’s pancreas, creating the first real treatment of diabetes. He intended to make it extremely cheap in order to save as many people as possible but private companies now charge almost $300 a single vial of insulin.