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TIL that a man served 31 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and the state compensated him only $75.

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5Vyen TIL Tuataras, native to New Zealand, are the last surviving member of the Rhynchocephalia, an order of reptiles that diverged from what would become lizards and snakes sometime around the Triassic.
N7e6e TIL Socrates condemned the use of the written word because he thought it would cause people to be forgetful.
4X79a TIL Winston Churchill, a notorious drinker, circumvented prohibition while visiting the U.S. by obtaining a letter from his doctor prescribing alcohol for treatment following a vehicular accident.
yxyl TIL several ancient cultures believed in the existence of a race of dog headed men called “Cynocephaly”.
eyo5 TIL that in order to prove that the bacteria H. pylori could cause stomach ulcers, an Australian doctor named Barry J. Marshall drank a culture of H. pylori, developed an ulcer, and successfully treated it with antibiotics. He won a Nobel Prize for it in 2005.