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TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.

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Rv04 TIL life inside Movile Cave has been separated from the outside world for the past 5.5 MILLION YEARS. The ecosystem is based completely on chemosynthesis rather than photosynthesis.
0d8wM TIL that North and South Korea share only one holiday: August 15, the day in 1945 when Korea became independent from Japan after 35 years as a colony.
eQRL TIL New Zealand is not part of the continent of Australia but of the submerged continent of Zealandia
BrVNL TIL that Ireland has 3 Peat fired power plants. Using peat taken from Irish bogs, its more polluting than Coal and is so inefficient it is subsided by the state.
4Xj6X TIL of Vitaly Yurchenko, a KGB officer who was turned by the CIA and defected to the US. He gave the name of 2 moles, and in 1985 disappeared just before eating at a French restaurant in DC. He later reappeared in Russia, saying he was drugged and kidnapped by the CIA, and was given a medal.