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TIL of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was charged and executed in 2004 for allegedly setting his house on fire to murder his 3 children in 1991. All the evidence against him was debunked by experts in fire investigations 5 years later.

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pJaG TIL Stanley Kubrick was embarrassed to discover that HAL’s initials were one letter up from IBM, which had helped the production of 2001, “and we would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence”
X9Ej TIL Eduardo Chibas, pre-revolution Cuban politician, shot himself dead on-air during his weekly radio show as a protest against the corrupt government. He didn’t realise his allotted time was only 25 minutes, and the gesture ended up happening during an advert break instead.
4keog TIL: The phrase "you're joshing me" dates back to 1883 to a man named Josh Tatum, who was a counterfeiter
yQBJp TIL that the reason many old people seem to be able to easily speak their mind and not care what people think about them is because the area of the brain that is responsible for impulse control, the prefrontal cortex, is most susceptible to age-based deterioration.
epKJg TIL there were three separate South American remakes of Married with Children in the 2000s that ran for hundreds of episodes, starting in 2004 with the Colombian version of Casados con hijos.