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TIL of the "Wagon Tragedy" (1921), where 67 Indian prisoners being transported under British Raj authority were accidentally suffocated to death after being packed into a sealed, windowless railway goods wagon

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VybQ TIL When Frank Sinatra’s son was kidnapped the kidnappers demanded that all communication be on payphones.Sinatra was concerned he wouldn’t have enough change to complete the calls. He carried a roll of dimes with him at all times for the rest of his life; he was buried with ten dimes in his pocket.
QJgvL TIL that BumbleBee Tuna had an awful fatality in 2012 where an employee was pressure-cooked... Alive...
R7JXw TIL: “Obetrol” was FDA-approved January 19, 1960 marketed as a diet pill, prescribed in 10 and 20mg formulations. In 1979, amphetamines were banned for weight loss, and Obetrol was withdrawn... then it was reintroduced in the 1990’s as Adderall for ADHD.
KYOOG TIL famed novelist Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days whilst visiting Africa
6mWJ TIL that when our brains are tired, they are capable of thinking more creatively than when they are not tired.