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TIL Robert H Richards IV, the wealthy heir to the Du Pont fortune, was convicted of raping his toddler daughter but was never imprisoned as he would “not fare well” in jail

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MeDr8 TIL about Joel Youngblood, the only Major League Baseball player to get hits for two teams on the same day. As a member of the Mets, he played an afternoon game against the Cubs. After the game, he was traded to the Expos, which played that night against the Phillies in Philadelphia.
JYB5v TIL that SOS messages have been found stitched in Primark clothing, allegedly from employees complaining of "sweatshop conditions" and being "worked like oxen" over 15 hour shifts.
yVNyM TIL that the London Underground map's famous design is based on circuit diagrams. Its designer, Harry Beck, was an engineering draughtsman, and decided to strip away geographical accuracy in favour of making the links between stations as neat and readable as possible.
jNNwM TIL that half of UK speed cameras are turned off
e0e1D TIL that the person who played 8-year-old Grinch in The Grinch (2000) was actually an 18 year old with dwarfism and passed away two years after the release of the film