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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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X0D6E TIL: Dogs don't have digestive enzymes in their saliva, nor can they chew side to side. Their jaws only allow for up-and-down movement because their diet doesn’t need as much chewing as ours does.
JYj5V TIL Shin-kicking is a sport in England in which two participants kick each other in the shin until one of them falls.
1lZW TIL that Bell telephone could have made the internet back in the 1960s if their “picturephone” service had not flopped.
A9Dw TIL while Teddy Roosevelt was police commissioner in NY, he ordered about forty Jewish policemen to protect a German anti-Semitic preacher, with the goal to make him ridiculous.
DQgoV TIL the 1978 Saturday Night Live song "King Tut" with Steve Martin was one of the most expensive sketches the show had attempted at the time. Producer Lorne Michaels put everything behind the production.