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TIL of Jack Ketch, an English executioner in the 1600s whose name became synomoymous with Satan, death and excecutioner because of the brutal inefficiency of his excecutions

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R5N76 TIL in 1933, Albert Einstein, who left Nazi Germany for the United States, suggested the formation of the International Relief Association. Now known as the International Rescue Committee (IRC), it has provided assistance to millions of refugees and displaced persons across some 40 countries.
j6Lp TIL that after Hurricane Katrina, Six Flags New Orleans was abandoned and remains untouched [PICS]
n9PW TIL John Stewart is considered a more trustworthy news source than MSNBC. Source chart and data on page 36.
m1GlR TIL In the 1950’s, when General Electric opened Appliance Park in Louisville, KY, they persuaded lawmakers to bend the time zone boundary around the city so the factory would observe the same time as GE’s headquarters in Fairfield, CT.
KPMQ TIL that to eliminate all the elusive invasive goats in the Galapagos, researchers attached a GPS to a ‘Judas goat’ who would, because of its gregarious nature, seek out other goats. It was then tracked down, the group killed, but with the 'traitor’ left alive to repeat the cycle.