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TIL Utah brought back firing squad as an execution method in 2015 when they had a shortage of lethal injection drugs.

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kJxLd TIL That If You Scaled The Solar System Down To 1 Millimeter, The Nearest Other Star Would Be About 23 Feet Away
dD44E TIL that baby kangaroos are born as fetuses and climb into their mothers pouches to finish gestation. Mother kangaroos can suspend their pregnancies and produce four different types of specialized milk at one time to satisfy the developmental needs of individual offspring.
7e0p TIL a quadriplegic man was sentenced to 10 days in jail for a first time offence of possession of marijuana, despite the prison not having sufficient medical equipment for him. The 27 year-old died after four days in custody.
QJv8k TIL The oldest human construction are some Australian Aboriginal Fish Traps (40,000 years old)
rQlw TIL when Sun Ra played a gig at a mental hospital, it prompted a patient to talk for the first time in years. The patient walked directly to his piano, and said ‘Do you call that music?’