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TIL that Elton John has a species of shrimp named after him

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LQLMV TIL Potassium chloride, a salt substitute for food often mixed with ordinary table salt to form low sodium salt, is used as the final drug in the sequence of execution by lethal injection
OlX7 TIL the Tokyo Olympics will be held in 2020, corresponding with the events in the 1988 anime film Akira, which took place in 2019 leading up to the fictional 2020 Tokyo Olympics
KNZ4 TIL that Benjamin Franklin was not trusted to draft the Declaration of Independence for fear that he might conceal a joke in it.
PY8nJ TIL Dane Cook has Laugh Factory's endurance record of performing for 7 hours straight, beating previous record held by Dave Chappelle by 38 minutes.
WkLmL TIL that an elderly woman slept through the People’s Temple mass suicide in Jonestown. She woke up the next morning to discover the bodies of over 900 members of the cult.