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TIL on 1958, Jimmy Wilson, a Black Alabama handyman, was sentenced to death for a $1.95 robbery

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9GoQ TIL that in 2009, 78% of schools in Atlanta altered the answers on elementary students’ state exams to produce higher scores that would bring bonuses to administration, leading to criminal racketeering convictions.
R5ZM9 TIL: That the original colour of Blu Tack was actually white; but following fears that children could mistake it for chewing gum, a blue colouring was added.
WkJQ8 TIL there are contact binary star systems where the stars orbit so close together they bulge into one peanut shaped star. The stars can even share matter back and forth by absorbing each other's planetary nebulae.
XgRD TIL that 23 year old, Joe Arridy, a intellectually disabled man with an IQ of 46, was wrongfully executed in 1939. He was known for playing with his toy train that the prison warden gave him as a present while on death row. Guards and Inmates described him as “the happiest prisoner on death row”
8wKV TIL Arizona and Hawaii are the only two US states that don’t observe Daylight Savings Time