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TIL that President Lincoln personally selected the Dakota who were hanged in the largest mass execution is US history.

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oRBjK TIL Polaris, the North Star, is a star system of three stars gravitationally bound to one another.
R7eol TIL that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was interested in criminal justice and helped exonerate two men of wrongdoing after their cases had been closed. His work in the first case also partially contributed to the establishment of the Court of Criminal Appeal in 1907.
7bdL TIL the United States is obliged to go to war for 67 different countries should the situation arise, thanks to decades of complicated treaties.
yVeda TIL Fungi communicate with each other through electrical signals carried by underground filaments. Scientists studying these networks have identified common signal patterns that make up a vocabulary of up to 50 “words”
19xD TIL in 1996, Pfizer may have killed 50 kids in Nigeria while improperly testing experimental anti-meningitis drugs