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TIL the word "nuclear" is very often mis-spoken as "nucular". The pronunciation has often been used to signify low intellect and it has been said by numerous famous people and referenced in shows like Family Guy, the Simpsons and Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors
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TIL Teddy Rosevelt kept the bullet inside him after his assassination, and was buried with it lodged in his chest. When asked if it bothered him he said "I don't mind it any more than if it were in my waistcoat
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TIL William Kemmler, an American peddler, alcoholic, and murderer, was the first person in the world to be executed by electric chair in 1890. However, his execution did not go smoothly and took 8 minutes to complete
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TIL in an ironic fashion, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer attempted to completely erase Gaslight (1940) from existence so as to prevent it from competing with their remake of Gaslight in 1944.
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