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TIL that the guillotine was last used in 1977 and wasn't officially outlawed by France in 1981

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D1DeY TIL In 1999, a large fragment of a window fell from the CNA Center and killed a woman walking with her child. CNA Financial paid $18 million to settle the resultant lawsuit. Windows had been cracking since it had been built in 1975 and all of the building's windows were replaced in a retrofit.
d11Z TIL the CEO of Spotify was the CEO of uTorrent in 2006
VBYyB TIL: It's estimated that the Kool-Aid Man is 6 feet tall with glass 3.6 inches thick. Without liquid, he'd weigh 5,800 lbs. But when filled with 607.6 gallons of liquid, he weighs in at 11,000 lbs which is roughly the same weight as an elephant. OH YEAHHHH!
VMA64 TIL that George Washington owned the largest distillery in America, producing 11,000 gallons of whiskey per year
nWr69 TIL Stanford engineers made a folding origami microscope that costs less than $1 to make. 50,000 microscopes were shipped to 130 countries in 2014 to see what people will do with it