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TIL that in 1994, a Washington State man’s death sentence was overturned because the Judge believed that the man’s weight could cause him to be decapitated by the scheduled hanging - deeming him “too obese to hang”

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9YKA7 TIL Belgium is the world’s largest kangaroo meat importer. Sad part is that they’re taken down quiet cruelly: “Each year, about 1.6 million kangaroos are hunted and killed in particularly cruel conditions.”
X8pD TIL that Rosa Parks was sitting in the colored section of the bus during the infamous incident in Montgomery; she was asked to vacate her seat, in the front row of the colored section, because the white portion of the bus was filled.
nWN8r TIL about the Shreveport Rate Case, a SCOTUS case that allowed the federal government to regulate intrastate commerce when it is needed to regulate interstate commerce. It was brought against an interstate railway that charged shipping rates that favored Texan cities, a policy mandated by the state.
9Z1D TIL Harry Pointer was taking humorous pictures of cats and adding text (ie: the lol cat) in the 1870s
nenmB TIL In 1999, NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because half the project staff used imperial measurements and the other half used metric.