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TIL France performed guillotine executions as recently as 1977

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9YLMp TIL the LAGEOS Satellite, in stable medium Earth orbit, contains a plaque (designed by Carl Sagan) of various binary numbers, a map of Earth's continents (1974), among other info. Intended to be message to future humanity, 8.4 million years from now, when the satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere
l11K TIL Denzel Washington subjected himself to being waterboarded for his role in the film, “Safe House”
aGGZ TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier who volunteered to be caught and sent to Auschwitz so that he could report on the atrocities occurring there. After 2 ½ years as a prisoner, he escaped.
Z8eXo TIL Edvard Beneš, the President of the Czech Republic who was exiled in the UK from 1940 to 1945, donated a bus shelter to the villages of Aston Abbotts and Wingrave in 1944. Beneš rented Wingrave Manor for his exiled government and their families, as well as The Abbey at Aston Abbots for himself
6EnV8 TIL about 'bureiko', the Japanese system by which employees can tell their boss what they really think about their work and jobs, without any negative consequences.