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TIL Over 500 people have been killed by tasers in the U.S. since 2001

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P1YVE TIL about the Royal Grand Knockout Tournament 1987 which featured several members of the British royal family (Prince Edward, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Sarah Ferguson) and celebrities (Meat Loaf, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, John Travolta) competing on a special It’s a Knockout course.
xVAYg TIL that Alfred Wegener, the man who originally came up with continental drift theory, went on to die in a winter expedition in Greenland to measure meteorological events.
PYdGE TIL that the biggest fish ever caught was a 2,664 pound great white shark back in 1959
aONA TIL Erwin Rommel humanely treated captured soldiers, ignored orders to kill Jews, civilians and conspired to assassinate Hitler. After his death soldiers on both sides pay respect to his grave and he is the only member of The Third Reich to have a museum dedicated to him.
OBRR TIL A man near the Canadian border crushed 8 police cars with his tractor because he was angry about a marijuana arrest.