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TIL Richard Phillips spent 45 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit — the longest verified sentence to have been served in error in America

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GYmdE TIL Louisville's Brandeis School of Law has the name of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. It also has his body: he's buried underneath it.
b9xxQ TIL almost all meteors never hit the surface of the earth: the pressure of the atmosphere usually causes them to explode. Only extremely large meteors, upwards of 100 meters in diameter, ever directly reach the surface of the earth.
Rwy8 TIL that Black Ivory Coffee, the most expensive coffee in the world, is made by feeding coffee beans to elephants then picking the beans out of their droppings. The fermentation process inside the elephant is said to help remove the coffee’s bitterness.
v1BK7 TIL in 1970, 3 men broke into the zoo in Portland. 1 was mauled to death by lions while showing off by lowering himself into the lions den. The next night, one of the surviving 2, broke in again & shot the lions to death
x6pjD TIL in the cover art for Sgt Pepper’s, John Lennon requested that both Hitler and Jesus be included as figurines. In the final shoot they were placed behind the Beatles and are not noticeable in the artwork