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TIL of three Duke lacrosse players being falsely accused of rape in 2006. Since then, the lead prosecutor has been disbarred, the accuser is in prison for second-degree murder, and the police supervisor commited suicide.

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k8PE TIL - The Waffen SS wouldn’t accept atheists. “Atheism is the only world-view or religious view that is not tolerated within the SS,” Himmler wrote
b6pN TIL - Pavlov’s House was defended by 25 men for two months against German attacks so frequent that the Russians would have to kick over piles of dead Germans so they couldn’t be used as cover by the next wave.
LQ07Q TIL that Studebaker made the world's "largest living advertisement" in 1938 by planting 8k pine trees to spell "STUDEBAKER" if viewed from the sky. Even though Studebaker has been gone for over 50 years, their pine tree logo lives on and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
QNnoX TIL The uncle of the Red Baron, Ferdinand von Richthofen, was a noted German traveler and geographer who is credited with coining the phrase "Silk Road” (Seidenstraßen) in 1877. He also helped standardized the practices of chorography and chorology.
xVEXB TIL that when Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.