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TIL That Ron Ely's son, Cameron, fatally stabed his mother back in 2019.

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M6O8 TIL of the Birmingham 6, a group of men incorrectly convicted of bombing a UK pub. The men provided false confessions to police after being interrogated for up to 12 hours (without any breaks, food or sleep) and physical abuse including punches, police dogs and a mock execution.
wLGko TIL North Carolina was paid $80 million by other states to build a waste treatment plant, did nothing, was sued in the Supreme Court—and won
PYn6e TIL that getting rid of undesired men as well as cruel and/or incompetent officers by sending them on a dangerous, nearly impossible mission, was likely the main reason for the spanish expedition to find "El Dorado" in 1560.
PYVYV TIL it is illegal in Syracuse, NY to throw a snowball, you're "endangering the public."
1kv8 TIL According to the US soldiers who guarded him, one of the few times Saddam Hussein ever looked defeated in prison was when they brought him the wrong cereal. (Fruit Loops. He hated Fruit Loops.)