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TIL a man who spent 11 years in federal prison for robbing banks became well-known as a jailhouse lawyer. While in prison, he started spending time in the law library and became an accomplished United States Supreme Court practitioner by the time he left in 2008.

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WgRo TIL that Halliburton was forced to pay only $200,000 in fines following the firm’s willful destruction of incriminating evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
eZ5b TIL that a New Zealand father was arrested and taken from his children for 8 months because people at a park mistook him kissing his daughter as indecent assault.
4XrB5 The oldest carpet in the world, which was removed from a grave at the foot of the Altai Mountains in 1949, belongs to Turkish tribes, a study on the motifs and engravings on it has found.
yQjn8 TIL Of the Nazi drug D-IX that allowed test subjects to march 56 miles per day while carrying a 44 lb. backpack
e0XAJ TIL that in the Czech Republic denial of communist-perpetrated atrocities is illegal.