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TIL that the unit of one mile comes from "a thousand paces" (mille passus)

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nZnB TIL that three Klansmen, including an FBI informant, forced a black man to jump to his death from a bridge 150 feet into a river. An Alabama judge dropped the case because “Merely forcing a person to jump from a bridge does not naturally and probably lead to the death of such a person.”
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