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TIL Michael Behenna was a US LT who stripped, assaulted, and shot to death an Iraqi prisoner he'd been ordered to return home. Despite being convicted for this premeditated murder, he was pardoned by the president in 2019.

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m1r0M TIL that a woman named Violet Jessop survived three famous shipwrecks: the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Olympic.
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XEdDE TIL that playwright and contemporary of Shakespeare Ben Jonson avoided being hanged for killing a man in a duel by citing "Benefit of Clergy," as he could read the Bible in Latin.
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