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TIL 1977 was the year of the last execution by guillotine --Hamida Djandoub in France

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9Ynvp TIL anthropologists consider society’s reaction to human sex trafficking to be a “moral panic,” with inflated data points and well-publicized “horror stories” that have little basis in reality.
4D0b TIL in 1973, when asked about a possible end of the US embargo against Cuba, Fidel Castro said “The US will talk to us when they have a black president and the world has a Latin American pope”
RGma TIL rocker Keith Moon was so destructive to hotel property that once he insisted that the limo return to the hotel because he forgot something. He then went up to his room and tossed the television into the swimming pool below. When he got back into the limo he said, “I nearly forgot.”
OKMe TIL that Kenny from South Park was actually based on a real child Trey Parker went to school with. Kenny wore an orange parka that made his voice difficult to understand. Trey and the other kids also joked about Kenny “dying”, as Kenny skipped school often.
KYmR TIL that black mamba venom contains a better pain killer than morphine.