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TIL Jupiter was the first planet to form in our solar system

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OGJZa TIL in the US in 1996, Georgia State Representative Doug Teper unsuccessfully sponsored a bill to replace that state's electric chair with the guillotine.
8BkZ TIL that Sweden was home to the world’s first institute for “racial biology”, which forcibly sterilized Sami women, among others, until 1975
YpAbG TIL that an overwhelming majority, 91%, of reported missing children cases are endangered runaways
XojQ TIL Cilantro (Coriander) is supposed to taste pleasantly fresh and like citrus. Scientists are still not sure why it tastes unpleasant and soapy for some people (including me).
xBlo TIL a man was executed for starting the Great Fire of London after he claimed he threw a fire-bomb through a bakery window. This was despite the fact that he was heavily crippled, the bakery had no windows, and it was proven at his trial that he was not even in the country at the time.