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TIL that Death Row prisoners’ last words are transcribed and recorded. They range from religious statements, familial farewells, true apologies, insistences of innocence, even and snarky one-liners.

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a8eKZ TIL Coca-Cola sold for 5 cents for over 60 years
eyJJ TIL that press sensationalism influenced the 1982 conviction of an Australian woman for murdering her baby, and after 6 years in prison she was totally exonerated, yet her plaintive “a dingo ate my baby” became joke fodder among American comedians.
GYx97 TIL that Hello kitty is the second highest-grossing media franchise after Pokémon
8am74 TIL that even though Jupiter is a massive planet, a day on Jupiter only lasts about 5 hours because it's rotating at 28,000 MPH. By comparison, Earth rotates at only 1,000 MPH.
p8dP4 TIL the Crips main founder was appalled to find his organization escalating from fist-fights of his era to gun fights, and hoped to build a truce with the Bloods before distancing himself and ultimately dying in a drive-by.