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TIL about Bamboo torture where a person would be fixed in place over fast growing bamboo to be impaled over time.

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R7Qk9 TIL: Howard Stern mocked Selena's murder and burial, poked fun at her mourners, criticized her music and said that Spanish people had the worse taste in music. Stern then played Selena's songs with gunshots in the background on his show.
Mel87 TIL that the most mass a planet can have is ~10-13x the mass of Jupiter. After this point, it's own sheer gravity begins to cause nuclear fusion and the body is classified as a brown dwarf (also called a failed star).
GvDG TIL the actor who played the dying Maurice Fisher in Inception, Pete Postlethwaite, was really dying of cancer. He died 5 months after the film’s release.
KYVJB TIL that when Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix, the organizers did not have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the Mexican hat dance.
5YYXD TIL of the Davy Crockett - a cold war recoilless infantry mini-nuke.