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TIL that prisoners in the 1800s were fed lobster - and it was considered cruel and unusual punishment.

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wLAyM TIL Gerald Ford served as vice president and then president of the U.S without actually being elected for either of those roles.
BrQLk TIL Czar Nicholas II actually wanted to meet with protesters and negotiate solutions, but his ministers rejected that idea and sent in soldiers to shoot at the protesters, triggering the 1905 revolution.
Y7WbW TIL: 17th Century explorer Louis Jolliet, who is famous for mapping the Mississippi River, Lost his original drawing of the map when his canoe capsized and later redrew it from memory.
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Y7BdA TIL that in Canada, they don't sentence criminals, like murderers, life in prison without parole as they consider it as cruel and unusual punishment