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TIL One of the first original television programs in America was “The Television Ghost,” which featured dead people telling the stories of their murders.

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GYb8G Today I learned that there was a species of humans that were extremely short, named Homo floresiensis, and nicknamed 'hobbit'. They were found on the island of Flores, Indonesia, and the remains of a skeleton found tell us that they were around 1.1m tall.
ADWb7 TIL that lobsters are notorious cannibals, one of the reason it's hard to have lobster farms
graB4 TIL in October 2005 a woman hanged herself in a tree near a residential road and was mistaken as a Halloween decoration for over 3 hours
nWx19 TIL after the OJ verdict, 75% white Americans and 30% black Americans polled thought he was guilty, but by 2016 those numbers had changed to 83% and 57%, respectively.
kaD5 TIL that despite making billions a year from TV rights and local incentives, the NFL is a non-profit organization and doesn’t pay a penny in taxes