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TIL that Texas keeps a record of the last words of death row prisoners on its website. Here is the latest entry…

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O5V7 TIL theaters used to have “cry rooms”: soundproof rooms at the back of theaters so mothers wouldn’t disturb others with their children
V9eQ TIL Bill Gates’ net worth is four and a half times as large as North Korea’s estimated GDP
x6mkk TIL concubinage in Hong Kong was not abolished until 1970
Gra1 TIL Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, wrote: “Good thing I was too stupid to know this” on a academic report stating gas turbine aircraft engines were “beyond the realm of possibility”.
9Y8Jr TIL of 1960s Japanese TV series The Samurai. After few episodes were shown on Australian TV in 1964, viewer demand led to the entire series being shown: it became the most popular show on TCN9 to that time and when the series star arrived in Melbourne he was met by thousands of fans, many in costume