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TIL the electric chair was invented by a dentist 'who was accustomed to performing procedures on subjects in chairs'

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16XoO TIL one of the influences of Austin Powers was the BBC's Adam Adamant Lives! television series, whose protagonist was a Victorian era spy, who was frozen in 1902, and then revived in the year 1966
ANJlo TIL scientific estimates of human population that Earth can support indefinitely range from 2 billion to 1 trillion
ADbrn TIL Tennessee's "Crack tax" required drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on their illegal sales and earned the state more than $6 million (mostly in seized property), before benig declared "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable, and therefore invalid under the constitution of [the] state."
rNlZo TIL the Avianca airplane crash of 1990 was caused in part due to the pilots not declaring a fuel emergency to the aircraft controllers. They never actually use the word "emergency," so they flew around in holding patterns and eventually ran out of fuel
R5jpw TIL about Ovicula, a plant discovered in 2024 by Big Bend National Park botanist Debra Manley. Named "wooly devil" because of its hairy leaves and ray florets resembling devil horns, it is the first new plant species discovered in a U.S. National Park since 1976.