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TIL the person who executes FL death row inmates Is a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution.

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grNPA TIL that a Canadian history professor has been running the same Dungeons & Dragons campaign continuously since April 1982 (over 43 years) making it the longest-running D&D homebrew campaign on record. Around 500 characters and dozens of players have participated, and the game has never gone more
PYQme TIL Pierre Joubert (1701-1814), age 113, was believed to have been the oldest person who ever lived. It was later discovered Pierre died in 1766 at age 65 and his son by the same name died in 1814, causing the confusion
4X786 TIL the planes that struck the World Trade Center Twin Towers weighed 100% more, carried 100% more fuel, and flew 100% faster than the plane whose impact the buildings were designed to withstand, a Boeing 707 airliner flying at landing approach speeds.
MeDr8 TIL about Joel Youngblood, the only Major League Baseball player to get hits for two teams on the same day. As a member of the Mets, he played an afternoon game against the Cubs. After the game, he was traded to the Expos, which played that night against the Phillies in Philadelphia.
8aGKV TIL that Taco Bell failed to pay two Michigan men who created the Taco Bell Chihuahua mascot and were later court ordered to pay them $42 million dollars.