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TIL Nancy Grace ruthlessly badgered an innocent man accused in the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping and still won’t admit she was wrong

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EJZV TIL: North Korean archaeologists announced to the world in 2012 they “discovered” lair of the UNICORN ridden by legendary King Tongmyung 2000 years ago.
Eg8ow TIL: The Warlocks of Chiloé are a mythical organization said to have obtained magic after acquiring a book of European magic. They fly using dead virgin skin, shapeshift into animals, board ghost ships, and tame hippos. They are weak to salt. In 1880, the Chilean government charged them.
V018 TIL Joe Namath, being from a largely black community in Pennsylvania, attended the University of Alabama during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, and was often involved in fights with white teammates and other white southerners while defending African Americans.
e8BL TIL the FBI recruited a mafia enforcer to help solve the slaying of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi in the 1960s. Gregory Scarpa kidnapped a klansman, put a gun in his mouth and forced him to reveal the spot where the three had been buried.
9YEem TIL that aluminum was once so valuable that Napoleon III served dinner to his most honored guests on aluminum plates, while the less distinguished were served on gold and silver plates.