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TIL of Bill Macumber legal case who was accused of murdering of 2 people. But another man confessed the crime to his lawyer - before dying in a fight. Because of attorney-client privilege, the lawyer’s testimony was not presented, and Bill Macumber went to jail for 37 years.

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ogWA TIL that the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber, the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and one of the Oklahoma City bombers are all incarcerated at the same prison.