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TIL about “Old Sparky”. Tennessee’s electric chair is over 100 years old and is reportedly made from the wood of the former gallows

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wLEXW TIL that after being shot in the frontal lobe during WWI, a Hungarian man named Paul Kern became unable to fall asleep. Baffling doctors, he did not present any other symptom other than his inability to sleep and an occasional headache. He went on to live a full, sleepless life.
Lk7WV TIL that Kool-Aid is the official state beverage of Nebraska.
J1a4l TIL the most expensive car in the world is no longer the 250 GTO but a 1955 Mercedes-Benz SLR coupe that sold for $142 million in 2022
4d65 TIL that Will Smith doesn’t use profanity in his lyrics because his grandmother wrote to him “intelligent people do not use these words to express themselves”
E1aPw TIL that Irish author James Joyce was very into farting during sex. When in Italy, he sent a number of extremely explicit letters to his wife Nora, where he detailed almost every act you could think of. He mentioned farting a lot.