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TIL that Gorbachev’s Glasnost reforms uncovered so many cover-ups about events in the Soviet Union that all school history exams in 1988 were cancelled.

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d8pd9 TIL that approximately 11% of people have a mental health condition globally.
Meew7 TIL Paris has public sparkling water fountains throughout the city to encourage more people to drink water.
9wZY6 TIL that Barry Sanders' own father asserted that Jim Brown was the greatest runningback ever, and at Barry's HOF induction called him the third best RB ever and barely praised his own son.
YpmBA TIL that there are more fried chicken restaurants just in South Korea (50,000 as of 2018) than there are McDonald's worldwide (37,855 as of 2018).
Oo8kX One night in 1987, a Canadian man named Kenneth Parks drove for 14 miles from his house to his in-laws. He then broke in and made his way upstairs, bludgeoning his mother-in-law with a crowbar that he’d gotten from the boot of his car before stabbing her repeatedly to death. He then proceeded to choke and stab his father-in-law, who miraculously survived. Parks then drove himself to the police station and turned himself in. It sounds like a fairly cut and dry murder case, but after going to trial, Kenneth Parks walked free. Thanks to a combination of a lack of motive, his consistent version of events, and data gathered from EEG readings, no charges were pressed against him because all evidence pointed to the unlikely and bewildering truth that Parks had been sleepwalking. It remains one of the most remarkable cases of homicidal sleepwalking in history.