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TIL The Earth’s magnetic felid can reverse itself, and has done so 183 times in the last 83 million years.

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JYaVB TIL in 1944 a 14-year-old was executed by electric chair. George Stinney Jr, a black boy, was accused of murdering 2 white girls. The trial was flimsy, and the jury decided in 10 minutes to execute the teen. In 2014, his conviction was vacated.
dDYeB TIL the country of Micronesia consists of 607 islands with a combined area of 271 sq miles of land that sit in 1.2 million sq miles of ocean.
x60bk TIL that, in 1989, the short film Visions of Ecstasy became the only movie to have been refused certification by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) on the grounds of blasphemy
E8oP TIL: January 29, 1845: “The Raven” published in the New York Evening Mirror. The poem was enormously popular and soon made Poe a household name, but it did not bring Poe any financial success. He received $9 for the poem.
WkWXo TIL the supermarket Lidl released a 21-track compilation album in 2019 featuring common noises found in their stores.