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

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ZJvY TIL Steven Tyler of Aerosmith once heard their song “You See Me Crying” and said “We should cover this, who is it?” Guitarist Joe Perry responded with “That’s US fuckhead! It’s that song you made us get a 109-piece orchestra for!”
b9J0Z TIL about crystal radio, a radio receiver made with simple parts that needs no external power source, all it needs is a radio signal to produce sound.
mxxGO “Across the atmosphere of Earth, lightning flashes about 50 times per second. That’s 4.3 million times a day and roughly 1.5 billion times a year.”
69W8Q TIL about the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, where thieves stole ~$18 million worth of Maple Syrup from Quebec.
16a8V TIL in 1969, top composer Louis Andriessen and others disrupted a Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra concert with nutcrackers and bicycle horns, giving leaflets about the lack of Dutch new music in the orchestra's programming. They did a week in jail but sparked some Dutch music scene change.