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TIL: that Dr. Guillotin, inventor of the guillotine, believed "this swift method of execution would reform capital punishment in keeping with human rights."

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8eK7b TIL that according to The World Health Organisation’s standards, Australian homes are on average colder than homes in Finland, Greenland, and the United Kingdom during the winter season
j68bv TIL about Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat who negotiated the release of about 450 Danish Jews and 30,550 other prisoners from a Nazi German concentration camp.
0KAp TIL that, in 2015, a group of penguins escaped from an enclosure at a Denmark zoo. Unfortunately for them, they left footprints which led to their recapture.
PYMnV TIL that all thoroughbred horses are given the birth date of Jan. 1 regardless of when they were really born.
0w4ry TIL in New York City, over 690 subway trains were delayed due to people jumping on the track. And over 726 trains were delayed due to litter and garbage fires... in one month.