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TIL the longest time served in prison by someone who was later exonerated was 48 years

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Lkmnp TIL: Hans Asperger (after whom a type of autism is named) helped the nazis to euthanize disabled children
oBW7o TIL the Soviets had their own spin on the Western genre of film called Osterns (Easterns). Instead of being set in the American frontier they were set in the Soviet union during the Russian Civil War
Me76b TIL that during Charles Manson's trial, the judge began carrying a revolver under his robe after Manson charged at him with a pencil.
wNwY TIL that in 2006 a man armored a bulldozer with steel plates and concrete (making a tank), and destroyed half of Granby, Colorado
Y7dbW TIL that Marjorie Fleming (1803–1811), a Scottish child writer and poet admired by Robert Louis Stevenson, is notable for a diary she kept during the last 18 months of her life. She died of meningitis a month short of her ninth birthday. Her manuscripts are held in the National Library of Scotland.