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TIL of John Woods, an Army private who lied his way into becoming the Army's hangman and an officer. He carried out 60-70 executions in two years, several of which he bungled by building the gallows too short, including all ten of the Nuremberg Executions of the Nazi high command.

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v10K TIL The Cash family blocked Preparation H from using Ring of Fire in what could have been their best commercial ever.

QJVjM TIL On March 12 1951 two separate comic strips entitled Dennis the Menace debuted, one in the UK and the other in the USA

ABdl TIL John Michell - called both the father of seismology and the father of magnetometry. “One of the greatest unsung black scientists of all time”, he was the first person known to propose the existence of black holes, earthquakes travel in waves. No one knows what he looked like.

e0vKE TIL "The Bare Necessities" From Disney's animated movie "The Jungle Book" got nominated for Best Original Song At the 1967 Oscars.

0EgM TIL: Martin Luther King Jr. said, “People who have a stake in their society, protect their society, but when when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.”