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TIL an Arizona teen was sentenced to spend 6 years in a state facility after being accused of making a lewd phone call. His case led to a Supreme Court decision mandating juveniles be granted all the constitutional safeguards of a criminal trial.

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gVxb TIL that Marie Curie was at the center of a sex scandal (cheated on her husband with a student & it leaked to the press) at the same time she was winning her second Nobel Prize.
pY944 TIl Jerry Lawson, created the first video game console that utilized a gaming cartridge from his garage at home. He then became the lead engineer of the home console named, Fairchild Channel F.
L1Jm TIL that an Australia bushranger escaped from prison so many times the government had to build a special cell to hold him. It was so strong they promised to forgive his crimes if he could escape again.
KO99w TIL That the older brother of John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth, saved the life of Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert shortly before the Lincoln assassination. Edwin stopped Robert from being run over by a train on a crowded platform, after he had fallen forward on the tracks.
Vndm TIL in 1988, Cuba was the only non-African nation to lend military support to anti-apartheid forces in South Africa that led to the successful defeat of US-backed mercenaries, and is an “example of principled anti-imperialist internationalism in the last decades of the twentieth century.”