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TIL that in 5 US states the gas chamber is still a legal way of execution

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QBEL TIL In 1985, Burger King launched a viral ad campaign featuring ‘Herb the Nerd’, a mysterious man who had never eaten a Whopper in his life. People could get a 99 cent Whopper by saying “I’m Not Herb”, or if their name was Herb, “I’m not the Herb you’re looking for.”
P1QnO TIL that people paint penises outside houses and buildings in Bhutan to ward off evil and good luck.
yQdRe TIL for over a decade, NASA used 11 deaf people with damaged vestibular systems (making them immune to motion sickness) to explore how extreme forces might affect astronauts. One test had four men spend 12 straight days in a 20-foot-wide room rotating at 10 revolutions per minute.
WdaB TIL that Bill Haast, known as “Snake Man,” was bitten by venomous snakes more than 170 times. By injecting himself with snake venom daily for over 60 years, he saved countless lives with his antibody rich blood. He lived to be 100.
WkRrN TIL Sylvester Stallone's main inspiration for Rocky was his dog, Butkus the Bull Mastiff