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TIL that a 4-year-old was arrested for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Little Dorothy Good spent 10 months chained in a prison cell after confessing to a local judge that she had a pet snake that could talk.

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epxM5 TIL That Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) and Delta blues musician Bukka White (BB King's older cousin) were incarcerated together at Parchman Farm, Mississippi from 1937-1939
wL9D6 TIL any citizen of a Commonwealth nation can seek consular assistance at the British Embassy, and even be granted a British Emergency Passport
ywWM TIL of Project PACER, an attempt to produce power from nuclear bombs by detonating them in an underground cavity full of water, and using the steam to drive a turbine. It was cancelled due to the controversy surrounding nuclear bombs.
wL5vo TIL Attorney-client privilege is moot when communications between an attorney and client are themselves used to further a crime, tort, or fraud (Clark v. United States).
OG8G7 TIL Hedgehogs belong to the order of Eulipotyphla which means "truly fat and blind"