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e0j7D TIL Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery due to Alabama's Habitual Offender rule because he had prior non-violent convictions. His change dot org petition has 2.3 million signatures (including mine!)
Wk0l9 TIL that in 2004 a tour bus carrying the Dave Matthews Band through Chicago drove over a bridge and dumped 800 lbs of human waste into the river below, splashing feces and urine onto tourists who were on a sightseeing cruise underneath the bridge.
BrYpx TIL about the deforestation and "wood mafia" of Romania. Every year, 38 million cubic meters of wood is destroyed, of which half of the harvest is illegal.
wLVoE TIL that after 9/11, governments halted commercial shiping in much of the world, causing ocean noise levels to fall, resulting in reduced stress hormones in whales.
0wQKA TIL, when writing from inside Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King Jr spoke of his grave disappointment with the ‘white moderate’