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TIL Anthony Graves spent 18 years on death row for a crime he did not commit. The State of Texas owes him $80,000 per year of false incarceration, BUT has evaded paying him due to a technicality on a form.

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DB8v TIL in Iceland they have an app to detect whether or not your date is a relative, due to having a small population.
YYYA TIL A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface.
8aDRV TIL much of activist Hellen Keller's archived material, including first editions of her books and photos of her with every living President that served during her lifetime, was lost in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center
Eg6ZP TIL that in 1984, we sent two balloons to float around the atmosphere of Venus. The two probes, Vega 1 and Vega 2, consisted of a spacecraft, a lander and a balloon explorer. After dropping the lander and balloon, Vega 1 and 2 went on to rendezvous with Halley’s Comet.
R5pn9 TIL that the Peacock Mantis Shrimp can deliver punches at speeds of up to 80 km/h