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TIL that the so-called second shoe print at the murder scene that helped acquit OJ Simpson turned out to be just a pattern in the cement.

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N7AQ6 TIL: In the 18th century, Britain dumped Opium in China because later only accepts Silver which caused a serious balance of payments issue for Britain. This eventually leads to the establishment of the tea industry in India by stealing Chinese plants and their tea expertise.
R7RXj TIL Ubisoft partnered with the British Museum to apply machine learning to speed the deciphering of ancient hieroglyphics
XaXR TIL: Richard Johnson, the 9th Vice-President of the USA, literally owned his wife. Slave Julia Chinn was 1/8ths African and was inherited by Johnson after his father’s death. Interracial marriage was illegal, so Johnsonn kept her as his “slave.”
Yp6aW TIL Kombat is regarded as one of the most iconic Soviet World War II photographs, yet neither the date nor the subject is known with certainty. According to the most widely accepted version, the photograph depicts Aleksei Yeryomenko's counterattack minutes before his death on 12 July 1942.
5VYRk TIL A lab in Guangzhou, China breeds infertile mosquitoes in a lab and releases them to slow the spread of diseases like Zika and Malaria.