› added 10 years ago

257

TIL that in 2007 an execution by lethal injection took so long that the condemend was given a bathroom break.

Read more clarkprosecutor.org

via reddit.com

wLdQY TIL of John Kissinger, who volunteered for the yellow fever experiments in 1900 and refused payment, stating that his actions "were solely in the interest of humanity and the cause of science"
ADNDB TIL the US was ready to drop a third nuclear bomb on Japan by August 19, 1945. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.
Gj4J TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
0ddbM TIL: The USA Declared the Marianas trench a National monument
yV7Zw TIL you are supposed to use a new section of floss for each tooth (not one string of floss for the entire mouth)