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TIL that a man mistakenly identified as a rapist served nearly 11 years in prison before the truth came out, and now spends his time travelling with the victim to promote awareness of false eyewitness testimony

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XEQVE TIL there is a fungus in Thailand that spreads into ants and controls their central nervous system making them perform actions to help its spread. It causes ants to climb trees and then fall into the moist soil where the fungus thrives. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/5/110511-zombies-
LQjeZ TIL Before her marriage to Mao Zedong, Jiang Qing was an actress in 1930s Chinese cinema. Her co-star an actress named Li Lili frequently upstaged her. Decades later during the Cultural Revolution, Jiang ordered the arrest and torture of Li and her husband. Li survived but her husband did not.
NXXGE TIL there's a US lawyer who's made hundreds of lawsuits over snack food ingredients. Most recently it was about Frosted Chocolate Fudge Pop-Tarts
x7VB TIL That the band Nine Inch Nails created an alternate reality game to be played over 18 months. Challenges in the game included finding a specific USB at many of NIN’s concerts, finding individual payphones and waiting to be called there, and decoding time codes in order to find digital letters.
XEpgk TIL: Birds have a poor sense of smell so handling a young bird does not cause its parents to abandon it. If you move it, make sure you leave it within hearing distance of where it was found.