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TIL a death row inmate who avoided the electric chair accidentally electrocuted himself on a toilet

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XElrr TIL, in 1970s, South Korea introduced the Minor Offenses Act that mandated limits on men's hair length and women's miniskirt length. Men with long hair were taken to a police station to have their hair cut against their will. Arrested women were forced to wear a 'modest' costume in police station.
wdmE TIL that almost everything about Koko the gorilla’s signing ability is a hoax. Her signs are nearly gibberish, and her handlers “interpret” everything she says and try to construct meaning from them. She has zero support from scientists and linguists for this reason.
4Xvlo TIL In 1917, people were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, while the malaria was cured quinine. The man who developed this treatment, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, received the nobel prize for it.
m18xO TIL that Ohm's law (Voltage=Current*Resistance) was rejected by the German scientific/education community for over a decade after Georg Ohm published his research
kZPB TIL Microsoft had planned to host multiplayer for Xbox and PC games on the same Microsoft LIVE network. Plans were cancelled after play-testing showed that PC players won virtually every match versus console opponents.