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TIL the last use of the guillotine in France was 1977

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D9eV TIL under modern scientific classification Dinosaurs are not considered extinct, and instead live among us as birds.
wLPXW TIL that in 1924, two men named Leopold and Loeb tried to commit the "perfect crime" and show their intellectual superiority by killing a 14 year old boy and not getting caught. They were caught in less than two weeks.
8wgb TIL Rand Paul is proposing a constitutional amendment stating Congress shall make no law applicable to a citizen of the United States that is not equally applicable to Congress.
0wB1p TIL Katharine Hepburn is the only person to win an Oscar for portraying a relative. She was a direct descendant of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who she portrayed in The Lion in Winter and won best actress. Eleanor had been dead for more than 750 years when Hepburn played her.
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