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TIL One of the 3 Lethal Injection drugs paralyzes the prisoner. This makes their death look peaceful to onlookers, but can hide suffering.

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kpx7 TIL that during WWII, Ford profited from its factory in Germany. It used ppl from concentration camps to produce military vehicles for the Nazis. In 1945, the US gov paid Ford $1m for damage to the factory caused by Allied bombings. When Holocaust survivors later sued, Ford got the case dismissed.
rRkeo TIL that the retirement age for men in the USA was set at 65 in 1935. The average life expectancy at the time was 61.7 years old.
XEXbj TIL da Vinci was given a vineyard as payment for making The Last Supper, which was bombed in WW2, and the DNA of those vines is being used to recreate the wines he had
g994 TIL Aztec king Montezuma drank 50 cups of chocolate a day
GY1e1 TIL the Melanesian men who helped rescue JFK during WWII were invited to his inauguration, but were prevented from going by British officials who felt they weren’t dressed well enough to travel.