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TIL Justin Ross Harris (the /r/childfree user who intentionally left his son in a hot car to die) had his murder conviction overturned in 2022

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KnoG TIL in 1990 soul legend Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down by falling lighting equipment whilst performing in New York. He continued to compose and record vocals lying down until his death in 1999.
jDOM TIL a woman struck and killed a child on his bicycle with her SUV. She then sued the dead child for emotional distress caused by his “incompetent bicycling.”
gMjr7 TIL Jim Crow was not a real person, but a character played by a white actor performing minstrel routines.
Zp0Ap TIL Winston Churchill's most famous painting sold for over £8 million in 2021. It was originally given as gift for President Roosevelt in 1943. Churchill only took up painting aged 40 when his career was on a downward trajectory.
rNWay TIL: du Coudray, a midwife that saw dangerous childbirth practices in the 1700s. She made a cloth model .. with a uterus, placenta, etc…and real pelvic bones. It mimicked contractions and fluid seen during childbirth. She made textbook drawings for midwives to follow even if they couldn’t read.