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TIL that a 2005 research by the University of Miami on lethal injections in the U.S. found that the post mortem blood concentration of anaesthetic (Sodium thiopental) in 43 out of 49 executed inmates were lower than that required for surgery. 21 inmates had concentrations consistent with awareness.

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04KA TIL Mary Tyler Moore once offered a restaurant $1000 for a 65 year-old lobster so she could return it to the wild. Rush Limbaugh then offered $2000 to eat the lobster. The restaurant denied both offers and kept the lobster as a mascot.
V56B TIL Former Navy Secretary John Lehman stated that the F-22 is “safe from Cyber attack” because “No one in China knows how to program the ‘83 vintage IBM software that runs them.”
xVD6g TIL the director of Predator and Die hard made a trailer for Ubisofts 2017 Ghost recon: Wildlands and served time in prison for being involved in illegal wiretapping
KYgd4 TIL that the observable universe is a spherical region of space that contains all matter that can be observed from Earth at the present time, and that its radius is about 46.5 billion light-years
wkoP TIL carrots weren’t orange originally. Orange carrots were cultivated by Dutch farmers in the 17th century as a tribute to their king William of Orange