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TIL Having a Lot of Money Affects Your Personality

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YpgAx TIL that Frederick the Great ordered executioners to secretly strangle criminals before they were broken on the wheel. This was to keep the illusion of brutality while, at the same time, being merciful.
Z8GNB TIL: Every seed in an apple will grow a tree with a completely different type of apple. No relation to the parent apple the seeds come from!
XEo9D TIL that there is a planned bike trail that will run from Maine to Florida
0drM1 TIL the unicorn is Scotland's national animal. It's a symbol of purity, strength, and the country's rugged beauty.
N7dOE TIL the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, hypermedia, object addressing and dynamic file linking, bootstrapping, and a collaborative real-time editor were all demonstrated for the first time in what is the called the “mother of all demos” back in 1968