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TIL that Buckethead has released 42 albums so far in 2015 with an average of one album every 3.7 days.

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kEJE TIL of Margaret Abbott, a woman who competed in and won a golf tournament in Paris. After her death, it was discovered that this tournament was part of the poorly-organized 1900 Olympics. She never knew she was an Olympian.
6EMbm TIL that Kostas Sarantidis is a Greek-Vietnamese soldier who fought with the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. He is the only foreign soldier awarded Vietnamese honour "Hero of the People's Armed Forces"
RWGl TIL America could potentially have discovered the Higgs Boson a decade before CERN but funding was cut on the collider resulting in the most expensive hole in the ground in the world.
D1rlD TIL :Police in West Midlands, U.K. have hung posters with photographs of staring eyes exploiting a phenomenon called “gaze detection". While humans evolved it to avoid being eaten by predators, some law enforcement agencies believe that it might actually help to deter some crimes.
0kxy TIL after a botched execution by lethal injection in which the condemned man writhed in pain for over 30 minutes the warden stated that the condemmed man was actually just “stretching to see a clock in the death chamber”