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TIL last words of murderer James French in the eletrical chair were "How's this for your headline? 'French Fries'"

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Z8dAG TIL of Henry Grimes, a jazz bassist who disappeared in 1970 and was presumed dead. He was found by a social worker in 2002, destitute and with no bass. After people loaned him instruments and money, he made a remarkable comeback, eventually winning a lifetime achievement award in 2016.
ner19 TIL during a charitable auction in Kiev, Ukraine, Wladimir Klitschko auctioned off his 1996 Olympic gold medal to a buyer who bid $1 million. After the sale, the buyer immediately returned the medal out of respect for Klitschko.
4XZg TIL that Canadian triathlete Simon Whitfield consoled a little girl who had been crying for him after he crashed, before tending to his injuries.
69yY8 TIL the WNBA team the Houston Comets four-peated and won the first four championships in a row from 1997-2000. They would later dissolve the franchise and go bankrupt in 2008
0woyL TIL a Princeton University undergraduate designed an atomic bomb for his term paper. When American nuclear scientists said it would work, the FBI confiscated his paper and classified it. Few months later he was contacted by French and Pakistani officials who offered to buy his design. He got an "A".