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TIL that one of the three fatalities in the Asiana Flight 214 in 2013 crash was a survivor who tragically lost their life after being accidentally run over by a responding fire truck.

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ZnJD TIL that the United States is the only country that has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child
XEY0j TIL that 17th century Londoners had a phrase for people who gained office and failed to use their new income to treat their friends: Bread and Cheese Constables
D10wY TIL President LBJ thought Nixon's back-channel communications to S.Vietnam government were treasonous (Nixon secretly told the S.Vietnamese to stop the Vietnam War peace talks with President LBJ, and wait until Nixon gets elected to get a "better deal".)
19WX Today I learned that helping disadvantaged children does more to reduce homicide rates than being tough on crime.
a88Zb TIL about Kendall Myers, the grandson of the first full-time editor of National Geographic (credited w/ having built the magazine into the iconic publication that it is today) and also great grandson of Alexander Graham Bell is serving a life sentence in the U.S.'s only supermax prison for espionage