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TIL: Stephen King didn’t tell his kids bedtime stories; he made them tell him stories.

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9YJ7B TIL Willie Francis survived the electric chair because the person that set it up was drunk. He unsuccessfully argued to the US Supreme Court that executing him again was double jeopardy. He died in the electric chair a year later.
x6Ew5 TIL: The unhappiest poor people get much happier if you give them more money. But the happiest poor people don't get that much happier.
EgVMV TIL in 2014, the owner of Samuel's Sweet Shop died and his family struggled to keep the store open. So the owners friends, Actors Paul Rudd (Ant Man) and Jeffery Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead) bought it and have been co-owners ever since
mxwyp TIL that there's a difference between a panic attack and an anxiety attack.
vP1mR TIL the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force is converting the helicopter carrier JS Izumo into a fixed-wing aircraft carrier, their first since WW2