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TIL that France was using the guillotine into the 1970s

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W77rY TIL Samantha Trimble was forcibly imprisoned by a mental health clinic aiming to obtain her insurance payouts. She sued them and partially won.
dDxb8 TIL A 2007 independent panel found that alcohol is "freely used in crew quarters," where astronauts are quarantined at the Kennedy Space Center in the three days before launch. NASA policy prohibits any drinking in the 12 hours before an astronaut flies a training jet
x64K1 TIL Christine Sinclair is the all-time leading international goalscorer in both men’s and women’s soccer with 190 goals and 331 caps
x6BXB TIL that Frederick Banting, who received the Nobel Prize at age 32, remains the youngest Nobel laureate for Physiology/Medicine.
VrJ8 TIL Physics dictate that unless otherwise contained a river will never flow straight for a distance greater than 10 times its width. It has to do with the center flowing faster and the friction induced by the banks.