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TIL of the murder of Emmett Till and that the two men accused of his murder and were acquitted, then admitted to the murder but were protected by the Double Jeopardy laws.

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E1DNP TIL The USS Pennsylvania has been in commission since 1989 and has been powered by a single piece of uranium the size of a fist ever since.
Y7yQd TIL that an aircraft like the Boeing 747 burns approximately 4L (0.9 gallons) of fuel every single second while in flight.
lomyr TIL the modern doctors aren't required to take Hippocratic oath and can use modernized version or Declaration of Geneva or Oath of Maimonides
jN9Aj TIL Stephen Wolfram spent 30 years coming up with the programming language that combines computation and the world's knowledge
9wZjQ TIL that Male otters will hold their pups for ransom to force the mother to give up their food