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TIL that Stanley "Tookie" Williams, convicted murderer and founder of the LA Crips gang, became a children's author and 5x Nobel Peace Prize nominee while on Death Row. He was executed in 2005 after being denied clemency by California Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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VMxvp TIL that the banana ketchup is made by a filipino war hero Maria Orosa, who invented 700 recipes,one of which were products invention of processing of canned goods for guerillar warfare. These inventions saved thousands of Filipino and American people trapped in japanese world war II intern camps.
NXEWe TIL that Cavalese, Italy had two major Cable Car disasters 22 years apart (1976, 1998) with only a single survivor between them. Both times, a person who had a variant of the family name Schweizer was implicated as having caused the accident through negligence.
4kXRw TIL The first film adaptation of the classic Irish novel ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce was banned in Ireland for over 3 decades for being "subversive to public morality". The ban was only lifted in 2000
5g1P TIL a bill in 2007 changed the law so that the President of the United States will now be able to take total control of a state’s National Guard units without the governor’s consent. In a letter to Congress, all 50 governors opposed the increase in power of the President.
epKJg TIL there were three separate South American remakes of Married with Children in the 2000s that ran for hundreds of episodes, starting in 2004 with the Colombian version of Casados con hijos.