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TIL a serial killer’s last request before being executed by firing squad was a bullet proof vest

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NLN1 TIL: There is a longer gap in time between the invention of the motorcycle and the first backflip on motorcycle, then there is the invention of flight and us landing on the moon.
XEllX TIL that all cacti are native to the New World, or the Americas. Only one species now grows natively on the Atlantic's other side as well. It's a type of mistletoe cactus and is found in Africa and Sri Lanka, thought to have been introduced by traders or birds.
Rxm7 TIL There is a single hacker who has taken down over 170 Jihadi websites as well as Wikileaks, Lizard Squad, and Westboro Baptist Church.
4Xpo6 TIL that Roman emperor Vespasian refused to make use of a labour-saving machine because he didn't want the day labourers heavily dependent on building projects to loose their livelihoods.
l790r TIL about Mary Anning, whom when she was 15 months old in the year 1800, she survived a lightning strike that killed the 3 women watching over her. She was completely fine and went on to be a well known palaeontologist.