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TIL, the Midnight Club was actually a underground street racing team in Tokyo

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yWda TIL in 1947 a man survived a botched execution by electric chair. He said that death tasted “like peanut butter” and looked a lot “like shines in a rooster’s tail.”
grg4W TIL Pacific Ocean prawns mature as males then transition to females, though a very few are female from birth.
VMk9G TIL fishing nets account for 46 percent of the trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, with the majority of the rest composed of other fishing industry gear, including ropes, oyster spacers, eel traps, crates, and baskets.
dGgB TIL Italian footballer Mario Balotelli was asked by a reporter why he refused to celebrate his goals. He responded: “Because I’m only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?”
kGXg TIL a study titled “Where Are They Now?” in 1978 followed up on 515 people who were prevented from attempting suicide using the Golden Gate Bridge from 1937 to 1971. About 90% were either alive or had died of natural causes, concluding “suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented” rather than inexorable.