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TIL King George V was given a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine (to preserve his dignity) so that his death, declared at 11:55 p.m., would be announced in the morning edition of The Times newspaper.

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ADdWo TIL All the gold ever mined would make a cube 71 ft on each side (21.7 m)
e79b TIL that ancient Egyptians used a d20 die.
D1aKP TIL that in 1984, an 18 year old patient named Libby Zion died in a hospital as a result of the resident and intern physicians being too overworked and exhausted to do their jobs properly. This led to the Libby Zion law, which limits resident physicians to an 80 hour work week.
G667 TIL when American troops were asking ‘American’ trivial questions to flush out German infiltrators in WWII, that American brigadier general Bruce Clarke was held at gunpoint for five hours after he said the Chicago Cubs were in the American League
pKLZ TIL in a study on the appeal of chocolate, it took researchers 1 year to find 11 men who don’t like chocolate