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TIL Navy SEALs are issued/wear Chuck Taylors

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VNjQ TIL the assassin of President Garfield, Charles Guiteau, shot the President with a gun that had ivory grips because he wanted it to look good as a museum exhibit after the assassination.
QLZp TIL that a hostage in the Iranian Embassy Siege was released due to his loud snoring which kept up other hostages up at night.
N94Q TIL that in 1978, a man was shot clean through the face by a particle beam and is still alive today.
X0jYQ TIL There was a phenomenon called Souperism during the Irish Famine. Schools were set up in which starving children were fed, on the condition of receiving Protestant religious instruction. However those who “took the soup” were often reviled by their peers, and the stigma lasted past the famine.
megx TIL John Thompson sued and won against Harry Connick Sr’s DA office after spending 18 years behind bars (14 of which he spent in solitary confinement on death row) for being wrongfully convicted of murder by Connick’s DA office due to evidence withholding