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TIL A killer who escaped the electric chair was electrocuted accidentally while sitting on a steel toilet.

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11pX TIL of Kazimierz Piechowski, an Auschwitz prisoner who learnt that his friend was to be executed, and thus escaped with him and 2 other prisoners by disguising themselves as SS, stealing an SS car, convincing the gate guards that they were SS and demanding they open the gate, and simply drove off.
JY59k TIL a model spotted his face on a jar of instant coffee 16 years after a photo shoot and won $15.6 million.
b6LaN TIL Greenland is portrayed about 14x larger than its actual size on most maps
voM7 TIL of Dr. Howard Jones, who in 1978 was forced into retirement due to rigid age restrictions for surgeons at Johns Hopkins. Rather than end his medical career, Jones moved to Virginia, where in 1981 at the age of 70, he performed the first IVF case in the U.S. He died in 2015 at the age of 104.
4nbb TIL In 2009, Wikipedia banned The Church of Scientology from editing any articles.