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TIL that although we use the terms "shock" and "electrocute" interchangeably, electrocution specifically refers to death due to electric shock.

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loNON TIL that after the John Amery was hanged for treason against the United Kingdom, his father Leo Amery requested that his own entry in Who's Who be changed from two sons to one
0d15 TIL the Japanese Honey Bee kills its most fearsome predator (the Japanese Giant Hornet) by creating a 500 bee convection oven and cooking single Hornets to death.
wor1o TIL It’s nearly impossible to open an emergency door mid-flight on a plane due to the ~24,000 pounds of force needed to do so.
wLRR8 TIL Nic Cage once crashed a Nic Cage film festival, watched 4 of his own films, did a 47-minute Q&A and read a 10-minute short story
8ae4 TIL in 2003, the “Infinite Monkey Theorem” was tested. Six Macaques were left with a working computer keyboard for a month. They produced six pages of mostly the letter “S” and a bashed-in keyboard covered in Macaque urine and feces.