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TIL none of the ~35 people killed in the Salem Witch Trials died from burning at the stake. 19 were hanged, 1 was pressed to death, all others died in jail.

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E1mJX TIL Toilets (toilets being flushed) almost never were seen in American cinema in the 1960s. In his "Psycho" Alfred Hitchcock masterfully used a scene of a toilet being flushed, which had an additional shocking effect on the viewers of that day.
oRJgW TIL: Kid 'n Play Turned Down The Show That Went On To Become The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air
56K9 TIL in a Dutch auction, the price is REDUCED until a single bid is made, thus ending the sale.
P1LvL TIL: The official song of POTUS, Hail to the Chief, was adapted from an original Gaelic melody
m1aZE TIL that in 1993, a man named James Scott intentionally caused a levee to fail along the Mississippi River, flooding 14,000 acres, just so his wife couldn’t return home and interrupt his partying.