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TIL of Ryan Holle. A man sentenced to life in prison for lending his car to his roommate and going back to sleep drunk. His roommate robbed a drug dealer and killed a teenager.

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AyLw TIL that the Chinese word for “contradiction” is 矛盾, consisting of the characters for “spear” and “shield” respectively. It’s derive from the book “Han Fei Zi” in which a Chu (楚国) merchant proclaimed to sell “spears that could pierce any shield” and “shields that could defend from all spear attacks”
G4Gj TIL that a post WWII tank that was used in a nuclear test (and was still drivable, they just had to refill the fuel tank) stayed in service for 23 years afterwards and saw combat
AD6D4 TIL about the American Colonization Society, which was an early advocate of the idea of resettling American-born blacks in Africa; Notable members of the American Colonization Society included Thomas Buchanan, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison.
pYemN TIL that the Sahara Desert fertilizes the Amazon rainforest!
6EAxQ TIL former NFL player Warrick Dunn raised his five siblings while attending college and then playing in the NFL, after his mom, a police officer, was shot dead while he was in high school. He built 145 houses for single moms, and also met and forgave the man who was convicted of killing his mother.