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TIL Winston Churchill's Mom was an American

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9YJ7B TIL Willie Francis survived the electric chair because the person that set it up was drunk. He unsuccessfully argued to the US Supreme Court that executing him again was double jeopardy. He died in the electric chair a year later.
ANxnw TIL the average high-school graduate will earn about $1 million less over their lifetime than the average four-year-college graduate.
B75d TIL that Hugin and Munin, Odin’s ravens, appear in The Avengers film, during Thor and Loki’s argument on the mountaintop
pgRA TIL Nobel Prize winner Guglielmo Marconi had secured free passage on the Titanic’s maiden voyage but decided to take an earlier ship to catch up on work. Three years later he disembarked the Lusitania right before it was sunk by a German U-Boat.
e04Kb TIL Professionals who walk over hot coals and broken glass have confirmed that walking over Lego bricks is more painful