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TIL six Italian scientists were convicted of manslaughter in 2012 and sentenced to 6 years in jail for making inaccurate predictions about the L'Aquila earthquake which killed 309 people in 2009. They were later acquitted on appeal.

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W7694 TIL Around 1550 BC, the Ebers Papyrus was the first document to recognize many diseases such as cancer that are still uncured 3,500 years later.
ANkJd TIL about Franca Viola and the fact that in Italy up until 1981 an accusation of sexual violence would lapse if the perpetrator married his victim in what was called "Rehabilitating Marriage"
E1PBX TIL about a 50+ year old non-profit called The Society for Creative Anachronism, which is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly European Medieval cultures and their histories before the 17th century.
DmQY TIL: A Man pretending to work at Goldman Sachs tweeted outlandish statements supposedly spoken by bankers criticizing the poor and bragging about their wealth within Elevators, Goldman believed so much that these tweets were real an internal inquiry was conducted and speaking in elevators banned.
PALn TIL the Domino’s Pizza logo has 3 dots because that’s how many stores there were in 1969. They planned to add a new dot for every store that opened, but that was quickly scrapped as the franchise grew rapidly.