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TIL California councilman, Lan Diep, was sworn in using his Captain America shield instead of a bible

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YpEvZ TIL that April 11, 1954 was calculated to be "The Most Boring Day in History". It featured only a handful of newsworthy events in the entire world.
Oo7jR TIL Charles N'Tchoréré, a Senegalese Tirailleurs Sgt. during WW1, CMDR of the Tirailleurs in French Sudan, came out of retirement to enlist in WW2 as a Captain of a French mixed Coy. Surrounded, they resisted for 3 days at 1 on 10. Refusing to be separated from his white men, Germans executed him
XEWL8 TIL of a 2011 study that analyzed the decisions made by a panel of judges who spent several days reviewing parole applications. It turned out that the likelihood of a prisoner getting parole was mostly determined by how hungry the judges were at different times in the day.
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