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TIL that convicted serial killer Albert Fish helped the executioner position the electrodes on his body before uttering his final words, “I don’t even know why I’m here.” It took two jolts to kill him.

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8e0AL TIL a former Nvidia employee spent $2 million dollars of his own money to find the largest current prime number which is 41,024,320 digits long.
dDXRr TIL: The only king in a pack of cards without a moustache is the King of Hearts, who lost his thanks to a faulty 'reproduction of the original design'
x68D TIL that there was a hot sauce with 16 million Scoville Units, created from crystals of pure Caspacin
p0OA TIL Koreans donated billions of euros’ worth of gold jewelry, personal heirlooms, and other valuables to help pay down the nation’s IMF debt in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis
b9By9 TIL songwriter James Blunt was once an army officer. He was in Kosovo in 1999 when the Russians took over Pristina airport. The NATO commander order Blunt's unit to attack and Blunt's commander refused saying we're "not going to start the Third World War."