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TIL the youngest United States citizen to receive a life sentence was Florida’s Lionel Tate, due to accidentally killing his neighbor while wrestling. At the time of the accident he was only 12 years old.

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bDe7 TIL that every year, residents of Naco, Arizona, join residents of Naco, Mexico, for a volleyball match at the fence that separates the U.S. and Mexico.
b9eQa TIL humans used to sleep in two shifts. The first sleep of four hours began about two hours after dusk. It is then followed by a waking period of one or two hours where they performed some work, a hobby, relaxation, or sex. And finally, a second sleep followed that lasted until dawn.
yJ7e TIL a guy hung dolls from trees on an island in honour of a little girl who died, he eventually covered the whole island in dolls until he committed suicide
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Q1x9 TIL Muhammad Ali saved a man from committing suicide in 1981 by shouting at him ‘I am your brother.’