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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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ADLo7 TIL that Germany actually consists of 16 separated Federal States
E1Rm7 TIL that most of the water scenes in the titanic were filmed in a large pool.
b9N6Q TIL The sharpest usable knife blades are made from volcanic glass called obsidian. They are 10 times thinner than a razor blade but can’t be used for surgical instruments as they could shatter.
x6Le1 TIL a tropical storm hit Long Beach, California in 1939 which is the only cyclone to make landfall in California in the twentieth century. Such events are rare in the Pacific because cyclones feed off the energy stored in warm ocean waters but weaken in the cool waters of the California Current
16ArV TIL after a Jewish six-year-old was taken away from his parents by priests, people involved tried to avoid returning him by publicly claiming the child had learned the catechism perfectly within a few days & was claiming "I am baptized and my father is the Pope."