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TIL Texas keeps a database of the lasts words of everyone executed on death row

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oBJb7 TIL of the "Dinosaur Mummy" - Borealopelta remains discovered with the protective armor, skin, and partial stomach intact. It's been so well preserved that scientists deemed it closer to a mummy than a fossil.
OMBL TIL that That 70s Show was remade into the British show “Days like These” with almost verbatim scripts. After it failed, the network just ran reruns of That 70s Show.
epg46 TIL that the platypus is not the only egg-laying mammal. Echnidas share that unique trait.
6LEQ TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they “acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition.”
5Yvj9 TIL that when 10 Downing Street was restored in the 1960s, it was found that its iconic black bricks were actually yellow, and had been stained black by two centuries of urban smog