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TIL that if you drive one mile to the convenience store to buy a Powerball ticket, you are eight times more likely to die than win the jackpot

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awb1J TIL Stalin’s head of Poisons’ Laboratory, who spent years trying to find an undetectable poison leading to death by cardiac failure, died himself of a cardiac failure after reminding Krushchev how they took part together to a political assassination
mQEE TIL that during the 16th century Martin Guerre, a French peasant, disappeared and a man claiming to be him “reappeared”. He lived with Guerre’s wife and son for three years ‘til he was discovered to be a man named Arnaud du Tilh, tried and executed. The real Guerre had returned during the trial.
DQAne TIL When en route to prison following an arrest for witchcraft in 1619, Joan Flowers asked for bread as a substitute for the Eucharist. She claimed that something so blessed could not be consumed by a witch. She choked and died after the first bite.
eXBE TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart. A veteran of 4 wars. He’s been Shot in the stomach, groin, head, hand, ankle, hip, and leg, chewed off a few of his own fingers, survived two plane crashes and lost an eye.
OKw6 TIL of Positronium, a nearly massless element made out of a meta-stable mix of matter and antimatter with no protons or neutrons. It can even form chemical compounds such as Positronium Hydride. When it does collapse, it releases pure energy as flash of gamma radiation, leaving nothing behind.