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TIL that 88% of execution by lethal injection go underdosed, with 43% having post-portem concentration indicating awareness.

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ANaOo TIL that in the first edition of the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory novel, The Oompa Loompas were Black pygmies imported from "the deepest and darkest part of the African jungle,"
7rbWp TIL John Rockefeller got out of Civil War duty by paying for a substitute.
ad9M TIL Jimmy Fallon initially majored in Computer Science but dropped out a semester shy of a degree and switched to Communications. “I got out once it got really hard. I made it up to C++. Then I couldn’t do the math – it got really confusing.”
0g0L TIL that 57 Regiment doesn´t exist in Turkish army because almost every single one of them died when they were ordered “to die” in Gallipolli war. Turks believe that such men as those could never, by mere humans, be replaced.
KxgE TIL since the sun doesn’t set all summer long in Alaska, it’s common for cabbage to weigh up to 75lbs. Alaska holds the 2012 world record of 138lbs. [Thanks Good Eats blurb]