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TIL that Arkansas rushed to execute 8 prisoners in 10 days due to a batch of lethal injection drugs that were expiring.

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oRygo TIL about the Zebra Murders a string of racially motivated serial killings in California that killed up to 15 people.
VMMl4 TIL: If working the extra hour during time change, you are entitled to pay for that hour. If you’re not being compensated contact your HR/Labor Board
EgrQP TIL Mayor in High Wycombe, England are weighted annually since 1678 to make sure that the mayor didn't grow fat at taxpayer money
OG5r4 TIL that mathematician John von Neumann had an unusual ability to solve new problems. When presented with a problem in programming on which there had been no published literature, he said "Oh, that!", then gave a lecture of over an hour explaining how to solve it using a hitherto unconceived theory
eVZE TIL There is a pepper grown in Japan called the Shishito pepper. Only 1 out of 10 is spicy and there’s no way of knowing beforehand.