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TIL only one person has ever been executed by the state of Wisconsin. The public execution was so graphic and horrible that Wisconsin abolished the death penalty two years later.

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Z8QpG TIL that in Tom Hanks' first movie, "He Knows You're Alone", his character was supposed to be killed off, but the crew liked him so much they decided not to film the scene, meaning his character survived
ANW47 TIL of George Cove, a Canadian inventor who, in 1905, developed a solar electric generator. He was kidnapped and offered $25,000 and a house to stop promoting his devices.
YpZrG TIL that out of thousands of Frog species, only one goes "RIBBIT", But it has become a global cliche of how a frog sounds because that particular frog specie resides in the West Coast of USA, where Hollywood is, and were recorded for sound effects in classic Hollywood movies.
KOmx6 TIL Texas had a female governer in the 1920s
P1eWn TIL that astronaut Scott Kelly came back from living in space and was two inches taller than his identical twin brother.