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TIL Edward Gingerich was the first Amish person convicted of homicide.

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0w8Pj TIL that TV show Top Gear conducted an extreme test of a Toyota pickup truck by leaving it on a beach to be taken by the tide, leaving it on top of a highrise building that was demolished, and setting it on fire. It still ran after being repaired with only the tools in the truck's toolbox.
BrQD TIL One gallon (4 liters) of gasoline has about 31 million calories.
R79j1 TIL The music to the Star-Spangled​ Banner is from a British drinking song called "To Anacreon in Heaven” By John Stafford Smith written in 1780
x6kNg TIL The barrels of guns are so called because they were literally constructed like wooden barrels with hoops and staves, as can be seen in this blown out section of Mons Meg from 1449.
mWGY TIL Jim Morrison , on LSD, was listening for the first time to “Joy to the World” - better known as “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog” - when he saw a monkey run into the room, start dancing, and juggling Christmas ornaments. It was not an hallucination.