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TIL that in 1975, three men were wrongfully convicted of murder. Their conviction was solely based on the testimony of a 12-year-old boy who claimed he’d seen them commit the crime. They were only fully exonerated in 2014, when the boy- now an adult, recanted his testimony.

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