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TIL that Randy Wools, a drug addict, helped executioners find a vein before he was executed through lethal injection.

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b9n89 TIL Jim Henson’s Cookie Monster evolved from a puppet named Arnold, featured (along with Henson) in a Muncho’s potato crisp commercial in 1969.
raO4 TIL England passed a law in 1994 banning musical gatherings that were “predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats”. The main target was after hours raves.
0wAdL TIL A hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel the world was found with its head and arms ripped off, just two weeks into its first American tour.
5y5R TIL that pro-slavery activist Edmund Ruffin - the man who fired the first shot of the Civil War - was so distraught by Confederate surrender that he wrote in his diary he would never submit to “Yankee rule” and committed suicide by gunshot to the head
d8YJK TIL November 19th is World Toilet Day