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TIL In Idaho, if a person’s perjury leads to the execution of an innocent person, the witness is then subject to the death penalty as well.

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lovpB TIL of the slow movement, which advocates a cultural shift toward slowing down life's pace, and "doing everything as well as possible, instead of as fast as possible." It began with a protest against the opening of a McDonald's in Rome in 1986. "It’s about quality over quantity in everything."
x6yWb TIL that in Greek mythology, one of the monsters that Hercules had to fight were called "Stymphalian birds." These invasive and vicious birds were made of bronze and could kill people by launching bladed feathers at them. Their poop was also poisonous.
bG0N TIL there is an ethnic minority in the Philippines whose life expectancy at birth is 16.5 and at age 15 is only 27.5.
LZ9v TIL During WW2, a US politician got 800 sailors killed after bragging to the press about the Japanese setting off depth charges too early.
4X6y6 TIL of the Brocken Spectre, an atmospheric condition in which the sun casts a person’s shadow onto fog or clouds, making the shadow appear enormous, otherworldly, and ringed with a rainbow halo.