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TIL in 1938 a revolver-camera was invented to take a picture just as the trigger was pulled.

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LDaV TIL that in 1962 scientists injected an elephant with a dose of LSD that was 3000 times a typical human dose. Five minutes later the elephant trumpeted, fell down, shit itself, went into a perpetual brain seizure, and then died an hour and forty minutes later.
G8kN TIL that Nelson Rockefeller, once Vice President of the United States, died at age 70 of a heart attack rumoured to be caused during sex with his 25 year old assistant. The New York Magazine quipped: “Nelson thought he was coming, but he was going”.
WbGY TIL Congress wrote the Freedom of Information Act so that they are exempt from it (among a list of many other laws)
ADdea TIL: Daddy Long Legs have penises, therefore they are not spiders. Although they are arachnids, they are more closely related to the scorpion.
KYVkR TIL While in Italy, La Cosa Nostra boss Vito Genovese ordered the assassination of an anti-fascist reporter living in America - Carlo Tresca - to impress dictator Benito Mussolini.