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TIL of the "Poe Toaster". A shadowy figure dressed in black who for over 7 decades toasted Edgar Alan Poe on his birthday at his grave with cognac and three roses

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QNPra TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights.
Wk4Z9 TIL that male chicks are ground up alive on their first day of birth in the egg industry
KOJga TIL that the George Barris did not make the first official Batmobile. This customized 1956 Oldsmobile 88 was built 3 years prior to the TV show.
kWJe TIL that the island of Madagascar split off from India, not Africa
R7Wjl TIL the memory capacity of a human brain is one petabyte (1,000 terabytes).