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TIL that a man on death row in Oklahoma took a drug overdose on his execution day. Prison staff rushed him to a hospital and saved his life…then brought him back to prison and executed him.

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YmBv TIL In the novel Fight Club, Marla’s line after having sex with Tyler is “I want to have your abortion.” A producer deemed this too offensive, so David Fincher changed it to “I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school,” for the film.
JvGj TIL that in 2002, a 15 year old boy inspired by 9/11, stole an airplane and flew it into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. It damaged one office room and he was the only person that died.
E1NMd TIL that after the 2011 Japanese nuclear plant in Fukushima was disabled by an earthquake tsunami double whammy, elderly Japanese people volunteered to do repairs to save young people from radiation exposure.
Gln1 TIL there is a huge military training complex in California that consists of 11 fake towns, real iraqi civilians, oh and it allows spectators.
P1Y0g TIL Lenora Cazalet, daughter of Jeeves author PG Wodehouse, died after minor gynecological surgery in 1944 London because a German V1 rocket fell near the hospital and overwhelmed them with casualties so no one responded to Lenora's overnight call button pleas to stem her post-op bleeding.