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TIL that an 11 year old accidentally invented popsicle

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MA9b TIL A man in 1938 agreed to have himself monitored on a electrocardiogram as he was executed to see the effects on his heart.
wWbM TIL As part of grief counseling after her husband died, a woman decided to look for her infant that she had given up for adoption, only to find he had died 25 years before in the Lockerbie bombing.
D15ke TIL the streets of London were once paved in gold: fool's gold. Martin Frobisher shipped over a thousand tons of fool's gold from what's now Canada to London under the impression he was shipping gold ore. When it was later discovered it was no more than iron pyrite to use it for road metalling.
Egoop TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger's father was a Nazi
LQDvV TIL about the Future Library project, a public artwork to collect an original work by a popular writer every year from 2014 to 2114. The works will remain unread and unpublished until 2114. 1000 trees were planted to supply the paper for the published books at the project's conclusion.