TIL that a man from Williamson County, Texas was jailed for 25 years for the brutal murder of his family while prosecutors withheld DNA evidence which proved him innocent. M. Morton is now free from jail and the prosecutors still hold their judiciary positions in the department
TIL Mr. Burns answers the phone using the phrase “ahoy hoy”. This was Alexander Graham Bell’s original intended greeting when answering the phone.
TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the midwest in an ice cream truck.”
TIL that Freddie Mercury never had his teeth fixed because he was afraid it would change the sound of his singing
TIL that a bottle of $1.99 wine, “Two Buck Chuck”, beat 2300 other wines to win the 28th Annual International Eastern Wine Competition