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TIL The United States still executes prisoners by firing squad. The last prisoner executed by firing squad was in 2010 in Utah.

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KO004 TIL that Roman Emperor Nero competed in the Olympics in 67 AD. He was allowed to enter the four horse chariot race with ten horses. He fell mid-race, did not finish, yet was still declared the winner.
4XA9R TIL that scientists believe that people with blue eyes share a common ancestor. This eye colour was caused by a genetic mutation about 6000 to 10000 year ago most likely around the eastern Baltic Sea.
690KQ TIL that the lesbian divorce rate is much higher than the divorce rate among men, and in Denmark, it's consistent with data showing that women initiate most heterosexual divorces.
k5ed TIL that British sniper Matt Hughes managed to kill an enemy with a half-mile sniper shot which curved 56 feet(17 meters) in the air before hitting the target.
v1eEL TIL A nurse treated female patient's genitals like a ventriloquist's dummy in front of colleagues. He was examining in front of three colleagues when he “pulled her labia apart and said ‘Hello my name is [Patient A]’, treating her labia like a puppet”, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.