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TIL in 2010 NY Governor David Paterson pardoned a black man for shooting an unarmed white teen to death after only serving 5 months of his sentence

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jNvnM TIL To prepare for the 2012 London Olympic Games, a city cleanup crew spent 3 months steam cleaning 300,000 pieces of gum off less than 2 miles of street
rgZw TIL for those who jumped from the WTC on 9/11/2001, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just under 150 MPH – not fast enough to lose consciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact. The deaths of those who jumped were ruled homicide, not suicide.
8a4GG TIL that the Southern elephant seal is the largest member of the Order Carnivora
4X5ja TIL astronauts need to sleep near air vents or risk carbon dioxide from their own lungs forming a bubble around their head due to weightlessness.
R76V6 TIL that the 1994 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was between Mark Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's great-grandson, and William Weld, Theodore Roosevelt's great-grandson-in-law