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TIL Despite being only 13 percent of the population, African Americans make up nearly half (49 percent) of all wrongful convictions.

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8LbV TIL; Only 2.84% of deaths are intentional (war, suicide etc) while 3.15% are caused by diarrhoea.
bjOj TIL by using more pressure than found in earth’s core, scientists at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut made diamond gemstones from peanut butter. Scientist Dan Frost noted that the hydrogen that’s bonded to the peanut butter’s carbon makes the process messier and that the process is slow.
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