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TIL That since 1989 in the United States alone there have been 2,420 innocent people exonerated from prison after being proven not guilty. Those 2,420 innocent people spent a combined total of 21,292 years in prison

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EgGEx TIL The Mongols employed a gruesome tactic during the siege of Caffa in Genoa. They hurled the bodies of their comrades, who had perished from the bubonic plague, over the city walls, infecting their enemies and marking one of the earliest instances of biological warfare.
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