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TIL that it is near impossible to incapacitate someone with chloroform against their will. It would tak nearly 5 minutes of constant inhanling to render a target incapacitated.

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ovBW TIL Stephen King Believed his popularity to be an accident, So King wrote under a pen name “Richard Bachman”. The books sold equally well, and King was outed. Happy birthday Stephen King!
6En5Z Til that Beethoven has "curious tempo selections" in his works that musicians today generally adapt the tempo from what was written. Historians believe in 1815, a deafening Beethoven was gifted an inaccurate early metronome by J. Mälzel that is likley to have been sabotaged/broken in a fit of rage.
rNdVx TIL that the Brennan monorail uses two gyroscopes opposing each other which allows it to balance on a single rail
KA5a TIL that at Russia’s “Black Dolphin” Prison, convicts arrive and are transported with blindfolds, bent over with their hands handcuffed behind them to disorient them and render them powerless. They’re only fed soup and bread. Guards are assisted by huge Caucasian Mountain Sheperds.
gOyX TIL when L. Ron Hubbard showed off Scientology’s first “clear” member (the highest level of achievement with skills that included perfect memory), the woman couldn’t even recall what color tie Hubbard was wearing