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TIL of the marquis de Favras, who upon reading his death sentence, remarked "I see that you have made three spelling mistakes"

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4kmOR TIL of the Great Donor Show, a controversial reality TV show from 2007 where a terminally ill woman intended to donate a kidney to one of 25 participants. The show was staged, with the ultimate motive of increasing the amount of donors, a goal in which it succeeded. The show won an emmy
rR61W TIL about Radithor, radioactive water sold as medicine. It was owned and produced by a college dropout, who marketed it as "A Cure for the Living Dead" and "Perpetual Sunshine". It notably killed a man in 1932, who was buried in a lead coffin, and was still highly radioactive when exhumed in 1965.
QJN9E TIL that in the lakes have snakes
89PG TIL: The sound we make when we sneeze is cultural, and deaf people sneeze silently
baXp TIL that an assassin failed to kill Franz Ferdinand because he didn’t realise there was a ten second delay on the grenade, and then proceeded to try and commit suicide, but his cyanide pill was expired and the river he jumped into was 10cm deep