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TIL: Usain Bolt Has Never Run a Mile

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XEvZj TIL prosecutors considered, but ended up not, calling a husband's parrot as a key witness in a wife-husband murder case after the bird kept repeating "don't shoot" in the victim's voice; wife found guilty anyway.
6ElKW TIL that the invention of barbed wire started many disputes, and eventually led to a concentration of power in the hands of the land owners. The wealthy ranchers started fencing their land and individuals with livestock but no land had nowhere for their livestock.
XEroD TIL Killer whales in the wild have not been responsible for a single human casualty.
lgX1 TIL: The airplane crash in Breaking Bad (ABQ) was inspired by a crash from 1986, the real controller’s name was Walter White
nWpO9 TIL that the Knights Hospitaller, One of the many Catholic military orders that fought in the Crusades, exists today and briefly had an air force.