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TIL about Jamake Highwater, a consultant on Star Trek: Voyager who made a career out of lying about being Native American

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Z810a TIL George R.R. Martin Still Writes Everything Using The MS-DOS Program Wordstar 4.0. It Was Released In 1986.
l7ee1 TIL that Tommy Zeigler is the longest-serving death row inmate in the United States. He was sentenced to death by Florida in 1976 for killing 4 people in 1975. Over nearly 50 years, a team of lawyers, a private investigator, a true-crime author and others have uncovered major issues with the case.
e0JME TIL that if grazing animals eat too many corn lilies, their offspring are likely to be born with one eye. This is because a chemical found in the corn lily plant interrupts brain development, causing the fetus to present with cyclopia.
VLVQ TIL 1948 winter Olympic Game’s athletes lacked the resources to compete post WWII, to the point where the Norwegian team had to borrow skis from the American team
Y7kvA TIL a 2nd century textbook on Roman law by the Roman jurist Gaius was considered to be lost until a manuscript of it was discovered in Verona in 1816.