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TIL That the execution of Nazi resistance leader Hans Scholl took just 52 seconds and that his last words before the guillotine blade fell were “Long live freedom”.

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dDAMQ TIL that Shalimar Seiuli, the sex worker who gained infamy when she was seen getting into Eddie Murphy's car, died after falling five floors after she locked herself out of her apartment and tried to use a towel as a rope to swing down from the roof to an open window.
P14dG TIL there's a bridge in Australia called Montague Street Bridge that's 3-metre high and has 26 warning signs, yet trucks keep hitting it a lot to the point that it becomes famous because of it.
MvA Til pinball was illegal in NYC for over 30 years
J1Ql8 TIL Schrodinger constructed his famous "cat experiment" to show that misinterpretations of quantum theory can lead to absurd results that do NOT match the real world - today many popularizers of science have embraced the absurdity of Schrodinger's Cat and claim that this is how the real world works
pYBXG TIL Pandalid shrimp are a rare example of hermaphroditic animals. These shrimp are born male only to eventually become female later in life.