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TIL a man was wrongfully executed after being convicted of murdering his 3 children. A prosecutor cited his tattoo of a serpent and his Led Zeppelin poster to prove he was a sociopath.

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Eg4Ap TIL : Tarzan actor and Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller and his brother were swimming in Lake Michigan when they saw a boat capsize. They pulled at least 14 people from the water, and 11 of those people survived.
oBYDo TIL Peppa Pig, the cartoon character aged 4, is over 7 feet tall.
DQemg TIL Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans), famous for the early 60's song and dance craze "The Twist", got his stage name from Dick Clark's wife as play on the name of another popular musician at the time Fats Domino.
5VNXD TIL about Douglas Bader, a British WWII ace who lost both legs before the war. He flew with prosthetics, scored 22 kills, and became one of Britain’s top pilots. After being captured, the RAF air-dropped him a new prosthetic leg behind enemy lines.
neYVP TIL about Lepersonnite, an extremely rare rare earth mineral only found in Shinkolobwe deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the only mineral in which the chemical element Gadolinium, otherwise too reactive to exist, is found in nature. 400 tonnes of Gadolinium are produced yearly.