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TIL the Nancy Drew books were extensively revised in 1959 to eliminate racist stereotypes

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16w1W TIL that Spain abolished and restored it's monarchy twice. First Abolition: 1873, First Restoration: 1874, Second Abolition: 1931, Second Restoration: 1975
wLk5E TIL Issac Wright Jr. served nine years of a life sentence related to drug charges before being exonerated. He studied law feverishly while he was imprisoned, and in 2017 he was sworn in as a licensed attorney and granted admission to the bar of the New Jersey Supreme Court
5VDGD TIL that on 19 January 2038 some computer systems will revert to 13 December 1901 due to a known bug in how Unix time is stored.
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