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TIL: NSFW - The last public execution in France by beheading (Eugen Weidmann) is on YouTube.

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a89Ro TIL on April Fool’s Day of 1957 the BBC showed a 3 minute report broadcast showcasing a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from their family spaghetti tree convincing numerous British people that spaghetti grew on trees.
epgek TIL the theory that dinosaurs were driven to extinction by an asteroid was only proposed as recently as 1980.
kXee TIL of the “dementor wasp,” called Ampulex dementor, which injects a toxin into cockroaches that leave them alive but without a will of their own, yet still mobile enough that they can run right into the wasp’s nest to be conveniently devoured
pdae TIL there is a group of women who were the last to be born into China’s foot binding culture, residing in a small village in the Yunnan province. In their 80’s and 90’s, they tell their stories so we will not forget them.
65xW TIL women on average actually get in more accidents per mile than men, but men are far more likely to be in fatal accidents