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TIL that a man was given a 13 year sentence for armed robbery in the year 2000, but the state of Missouri forgot to put him in prison. They only noticed in 2013, 13 years later, when it came time for his ‘release’.

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9YOa6 TIL that for the 1952 British Columbia election the Liberal/Conservative coalition introduced a ranked choice voting system with the hopes of keeping the surging Co-operative Commonwealth Federation out of power...it backfired and instead gave a majority to the fledgling Social Credit Party instead
DQNBv TIL Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the first practical telephone, was partly driven to experiment with hearing devices because both his mother and his wife were deaf.
d8Poj TIL the world's longest maritime chase lasted 110 days which started near Antarctica and ended on the equator.
v1OV4 TIL of the Unsolved Hinterkaifeck Mystery. German farmer found footprints leading from the woods to his farm, but no footprints going back. Days later he was murdered along with his whole family.
gMA1D TIL in 2013, there was a train crash in Australia caused by millipedes. There were so many of them on the tracks that a train pulling into a station ended up losing friction from squishing so many of them and crashed into another train.