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TIL about the Murder of Lynette White which happened in 1988, initially three men Tony Paris, Yusef Abdullahi and Stephen Miller were convicted of her murder but later had their convictions overturned through appeal. Jeffrey Gafoor would later be convicted in 2003 for her murder thanks to DNA.

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4kX6o TIL about the HMS Dreadnought. The only ship ever to sink a submarine by ramming into it.
9pVX TIL telephone Area Codes in North America were assigned based on the length of time a rotary dial phone took to dial the area code, so larger cities have lower numbers.
n5Jo TIL of leaked documents that show evidence of govenment agents using social media (such as reddit) to manipulate public perception.
R9K4 TIL that Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani owns the world’s second most expensive residence in the world, a 27-storey high building containing 21 elevators, 600 staff and 37,000 m2 (400,000 sq ft) of living space. The residence is valued at more than US$ 1 billion.
xV6W0 TIL That, left unchecked, an unspayed rabbit and her intact female descendants can produce more than 1300 offspring in a year. Over the course of five years this number balloons exponentially to more than 94 million!