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TIL that a death row inmate Troy Leon Gregg escaped prison just to be beaten to death in a bar fight the same night

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oeJA TIL that in 1941, a British physicist guessed the major technical specifications of a Nazi bomber radio guidance system based solely on its code name, “Wotan”, and created effective countermeasures before it was even deployed.
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