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TIL Harriet Tubman (1823-1913) was alive at the same time as John Adams (1735-1826) and Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).

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5jBR TIL A 45 year old Bosnian man named Amir Vehabovic faked his death back in 2007 because he wanted to see who would attend his funeral. Only his mother attended. After this debacle, he wrote dozens of angry letters to his so-called friends and what he thought of their friendship going forward.
b1LQ TIL Japan’s justice system largely depends on confessions for convictions. Combined with the expectations (high conviction rate) and that a prosecutor’s career is often over with a non-guilty verdict, methods are often used to get false confessions out of the accused.
4X8lN TIL National Geographic magazine was the first U.S. publisher to establish a color-photo lab in 1920, the first to publish underwater color photographs in 1927, the first to print an all-color issue in 1962, and the first to print a hologram in 1984.
4k4YJ TIL that there is a gemstone twice are bright as diamond & 1000 times more rare.
ZpwnQ TIL that Karl Silberbauer, the Nazi police officer who raided and arrested Anne Frank and her family, bought her diary to see if he was mentioned in the book.