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TIL: Georgia lawmaker Doug Teper proposed using a guillotine for state execution so that death-row inmates could serve as organ donors

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p8RKe TIL of Redoshi, a woman believed to have been the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. She was captured in 1860 in West Africa at age 12 and worked on a plantation in Alabama. She died in 1937 and lived long enough to become acquainted with people active in the civil rights movement.
x6LKo TIL the farthest spot from any McDonald's in the Contiguous USA used to be in a remote area of North Dakota, which was 107 miles from the closest McDonald's. In 2014 the record was broken.
yQl5V TIL in 2016, Shabani, a male Gorilla at a Japanese zoo received worldwide attention when women started flocking to see him as they thought him to be extremely handsome and manly. The crowds of women yelling his name made him so uncomfortable, zoo staff had to put up signs telling them to stop
kXY5 TIL the difference between a sprocket and a gear: a gear meshes with other gears, while a sprocket meshes with a chain, belt or other kind of perforated material
VyZQ TIL that there are more barrels of Bourbon in the state of Kentucky than there are people.