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TIL that in 1998, a man named Matthew Shepard was murdered by two men who tied him to a fence, and beat him until he died. Despite the homophobic rhetoric used during their trial Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson were not charged with a hate crime.

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69voJ TIL That judges are more inclined to be lenient with sentencing after a having meal, and in turn, more severe before the break. This is called the Hungry Judge Effect.
R5lr6 TIL about nutting stones, unusually shaped rocks with shallow dimples used by primitive people to crack hard shelled nuts like walnuts or hickory nuts.
OoLn7 TIL that efforts to prevent suicides off the Mapo Bridge in Seoul, which included LED lighting, statues, and inspirational messages backfired dramatically, and suicides actually more than quadrupled.
Ajxa TIL Dick Fosbury won the 1968 Olympic High Jump medal by using the hitherto unknown “flop” technique that he himself invented. It remains the most efficient high jumping technique to this day.
OoWMR TIL Apples, potatoes, and other produce can be and are often stored for up to a year before they are shipped to stores.