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TIL Gustav III of Sweden’s coffee experiment using 2 identical twins that were condemned to death, but had their sentence reduced to life in prison on the conditions of conducting this experiment.

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yV0Ew TIL about Chang Dai-chien, one of China’s greatest 20th-century artists. A master who exhibited at the Louvre, kept a pet gibbon, and exchanged paintings with Picasso, he was also a genius forger whose indistinguishable fakes of earlier masters fooled the world’s top museums and earned him millions.
awVPo TIL That Omarosa was dating Green Mile star Michael Clarke Duncan when he went into cardiac arrest, though she was able to perform CPR and resuscitate him he never fully recovered from the heart attack and died 2 months later in the hospital
a8gBA TIL the Buddhas of Bamiyan were built in 570 and 618 CE and were a holy site for buddhas along the Silk Road. They were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.
DQKkp TIL Benazir Bhutto (11th, 13th PM of Pakistan) and Liaquat Ali Khan (1st PM of Pakistan) were both assassinated in the same park and rushed to the same hospital. The doctor who attempted to revive Bhutto in 2007 was the son of the same doctor who tried to revive Khan in 1951.
x40w TIL that a 16 year old boy faced 90 years in prison after being accused of possession of child pornography. It was later proven he was innocent on those charges, but he pleaded guilty to distributing porn to minors. He had showed a playboy magazine to his friends at lunch. He is now a sex offender.