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TIL that slugs used to be used as lubricant on wheels

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VMey0 TIL that humans have a 95% probability of going extinct (in 7,800,000 years) according to J. Richard Gott's evolutionary formulation
VBRX8 TIL: The first black applicant to the then all white University of Mississippi was committed to an insane asylum for being crazy enough to apply (1958, Clennen King).
6NvW TIL that in Japan when a death order has been issued, the condemned prisoner is informed in the morning of his/her execution.
XYNk TIL the US is pretty much the only first world nation, without mandated paid holidays or vacation by the law
9MDr TIL Max Brooks, author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, is Mel Brooks’ son.