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TIL Billy Mays was signed on to star in a chain of Taco Bell commercials before his death.

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XErp8 TIL that 2 students were arrested and sentenced to 7 years in prison, in Portugal for "raising a toast to freedom" in 1960. The news of this inspired British lawyer Peter Benenson to lay down the foundation for one of the largest human rights organizations in the world, the Amnesty International.
xVAND TIL the stereotype of a witch riding a broomstick may come from historic witches straddling hallucinogenic substance-coated brooms naked to apply the drugs to their vaginas
9X86 TIL: Personal incomes in the US have fallen 10-15% for working age men since the year 2000.
GY5gg TIL Despite being only 13 percent of the population, African Americans make up nearly half (49 percent) of all wrongful convictions.
OowEg TIL slavery was banned in the colony of Georgia for the first 15 years because the state was intended to help former inmates of debtors' prison become solvent. The colony's trustees didn't have any moral objections to slavery, they just didn't want landowners to become wealthy.