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TIL that after completing his 20 yr sentence in 2000, John Lennon's killer has been denied parole every 2 years since. Next parole hearing is Aug 2020.

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6Aam TIL that Hugo Jaeger, one of Hitler’s personal photographers, took thousands of photographs, regularly in color film, during his time with the Fuhrer. He buried the photographs near Munich and didn’t show them to anyone until 1965, when he sold them to Life Magazine. In 2009 they were published.
NXPO1 TIL that 80% of Australian homes are colder than is recommended by the WHO safety standards for indoor air temperature.
Oovw6 TIL Paris Hilton was once engaged to a guy called Paris who was the exact same height as her and also a heir to a billionaire family
LQpOP TIL flat earth conspiracy theorists believe a conspiracy theory that the Flat Earth Society is a government controlled body to disprove flat earthers
9YDdQ TIL the Nigerian government has removed history from the secondary school curriculum as a result of the Nigerian civil war (the biafran war) being too controversial, where the Nigerian government blockaded and starved 3 million people to death.