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TIL A man in 1938 agreed to have himself monitored on a electrocardiogram as he was executed to see the effects on his heart.

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rRBE0 TIL that Pipe Organs need to be tuned like almost every other instrument, a long and laborious process made more complicated by the fact that the body heat of the organ tuner is sufficient to noticeably change the pitch of the pipe.
OG9me TIL: Sigmund Freud was initially a hypnotist and used his now-famous couch for hypnosis sessions. He continued using it for psychoanalysis, in part so people wouldn’t stare at him for eight hours a day
KYvv4 TIL that 2 MK 45 nuclear torpedos, each with a W34 11 kiloton nuclear warhead, are on the ocean floor with the remains of the USS Scorpion nuclear-powered submarine, which sank in 1968.
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pY7Eb TIL about Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest-held death row inmate. He was sentenced to death in 1968. In 2014 he was granted a retrial, but in 2018 the Tokyo High Court overturned the ruling, then the top court canceled the High Court's decision. The High Court will take a new decision on 13 March