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TIL about the Easter Sunday Massacre in 1975 where a man killed 11 members of his family. To date it is the deadliest shooting by a lone perp in the state of Ohio

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neONY TIL youngest person in modern times to be put to death using electric chair is a 14-yr old South Carolina black body who was wrongfully convicted after a 10 minutes jury deliberation. He was too short for the electric chair so they have to stack bibles under his feet
jNd4R TIL The Dodge La Femme, 1955, was the first car made exclusively for women and it included purse, boots, raincoat and umbrella.
APwo TIL that Watercress is the most nutrient dense vegetable. It contains more vitamin C than oranges, more vitamin E than broccoli, more calcium than whole milk and more iron than spinach!
Nwl1 TIL that the country with the lowest average IQ is Equatorial Guinea, with an average of 59.
ZnoR TIL that around half of all clinical trials by drug companies go unpublished. Which leads to overestimation of drug efficiency and an underestimation of dangers. And that a movement called AllTrials, which is supported by hundreds of organisations, has been fighting for all trials to be released.