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TIL In 1992, a man in Texas was sent to death row for murdering his kids by arson. He was executed by lethal injection in 2004. In 2009, through advances in technology, it was found that the fire was likely accidental. According to an expert, “There was no item of evidence that indicated arson.”

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woLvP TIL that Rwanda is the safest country in Africa, despite notoriously known having a genocide 20 years ago. Rwanda is even among the safest countries in the world and even safer than Denmark, Finland and Norway
Xpo8 TIL there is a horror movie about an Orca who exacts revenge on the crew that murdered his mate. The actual Orcas in the film were a mated pair named Nepo and Yaka. When Nepo died 3 years later of pneumonia, Yaka stayed while he took his final breaths. She refused to leave him.
4A5N TIL that audio experts could not tell the difference between $100 Monster speaker cables and cables made from soldering together old coat hangers
QJQe6 TIL A university called 42 is free, doesn’t care about SAT scores and wants to educate 10,000 students within the next 5 years. When the French President visited the campus in Paris there were students sleeping on the floor in the hallway
wLDyE TIL about “Sim Swapping”, a technique used by criminals that involves the stealing a phone number and exploiting Multi-factor Authentication to access your financial information.