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TIL Despite cement shoes being an execution method commonly associated with the mafia and other gangs, the first and only documented case of cement shoes used in a murder happened in May 2016.

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69o7W TIL: Thomas Midgley, the inventor, played an important role in introducing two environmentally disastrous products - leaded gasoline & chloro flouro carbons. At 51 he contracted polio and 4 yrs later he was strangled to death by the device he devised to allow him to get out of bed unassisted
BrKVy TIL the original Xbox had actual recordings of the Apollo missions in the menu sounds
jQON TIL legendary English comedian Benny Hill earned a 7 figure salary yet never owned a home, didn’t buy a car, rarely purchased new clothes and always bought cheap foods in supermarkets.
rNAo TIL that the only dog to be registered in the Royal Navy, to prevent him from being euthanized, was named “Just Nuisance”, his trade listed as “Bonecrusher”, and his religion as “Scrounger.”
DVnV TIL We perceive our first few years to be much longer in duration than the years that come later. If you measure your life this way, in “perceived” time rather than actual time, half of your “perceived life” is over by age 7.