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TIL the remaining members of Monty Python sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” at Graham Chapman’s funeral

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691GQ TIL Voltaire was known to drink up to FORTY cups of coffee A DAY at the Café Procope in Paris. He drank his coffee mixed with chocolate.
8a7dZ TIL about rubber duck debugging, where programmers work out problems in their code by explaining them out loud to a rubber duck
rN15W TIL that the last woman to be executed by burning at the stake in England was not killed for witchcraft, but for counterfeiting coins, seen as a crime against the king, and therefore treason. Her husband was hanged for the same offence, and the women’s sentence was changed to hanging the year after.
Wk764 TIL that, following the release of GoldenEye, the Contra Dam has become a popular place to bungie jump. More than 10,000 people have made the dive.
m1lyY TIL Ancient Egyptians would put dead mice in their mouth with the hopes it would cure a toothache.