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TIL of a 2013 study on plea bargaining, in which innocent university students were accused of cheating. Over half agreed to admit guilt in exchange for reduced punishments.

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Wkp19 TIL the woman who first proposed the theory that Shakespeare wasn't the real author, didn't do any research for her book and was eventually sent to an insane asylum
XEOND TIL A computer programmer who was dismissed from his job wrote a computer program that deleted software critical to the company's operations and caused the loss of more than $10 million in sales and contracts.
d0Zr TIL that the writer of Tomb Raider and Mirror’s Edge is Rhianna Pratchett, Terry Pratchett’s daughter. She also contribute to Bioshock Infinite.
0dN7N TIL 49 states (Washington is the exception) allow the removal and preservation of a dead person's tattoos
loNZB TIL Swedish Painter Hilma Af Klint is considered to have invented abstract painting and was supposedly led to do so by a group of spirits called the "High Masters" that she contacted at séances. She left instructions that her work can only be displayed 20 years after her death at a special temple.