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TIL of Texas inmate Jerry Hartfield who has been imprisoned for 35 years, even though his conviction was overturned in 1980. He has never been retried in that time.

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9nBm TIL during the early penicillin era, the drug was so scarce and so highly valued that it became common to collect the urine from patients being treated, so that the penicillin in the urine could be isolated and reused
lorDA TIL After the release of the film "Jaws", fishermen started catching as many sharks as possible, believing they were doing a public service, causing a huge decline in shark populations in the North Atlantic. Peter Benchley, the author of the original book, has become a dedicated conservationist.
E1BL7 TIL that Newton’s development of the Universal Law of Gravity over 300 years ago led at least indirectly to the ending of the practice of burning witches in Europe
d8m59 TIL the worlds largest scale model of the Solar system exist in Sweden. The Sun is a large spherical arena in Stockholm with 110m in diameter. 300km north of it is Pluto, a small sphere of 12 cm in diameter constructed next to a lake believed to have been created by a meteorite impact.
1666P TIL since the 1st generation Dodge Viper has no exterior door handles, one has to unzip vinyl windows to open the Viper's doors when the top and windows are in place.