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TIL Timothy Cole was arrested and convicted of rape in 1985 and sentenced to 25 years, dying in prison in 1999. After the statute of limitations on the crime had run out, the real rapist confessed and DNA testing proved Cole innocence. He was officially pardoned in 2009.

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WkN5d TIL about Zofia Rydet, a Polish photographer who, at age 67, decided to try to shoot the interior of every home in Poland. Over the final 19 years of her life, she shot 20,000 images. She said, "The simplest, most ordinary documentary picture becomes a great truth about human fate."
VVDG TIL despite maxing out at 2 grams apiece, krill are the most abundant life on earth (by weight)
EBx7 TIL - Bank heists almost never happened, in the wild west days, no matter how much Hollywood tries to make us believe
Eb5p TIL Herbert C. Brown’s “wife, bought him the book ‘The Hydrides of Boron and Silicon’ by Alfred Stock as a graduation gift. The book was chosen…because - at $2 - it was the cheapest in the University of Chicago bookstore.” In 1979, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with Boron.
neLQd TIL that Bessie Coleman was not only the first African-American woman to hold a pilot's licence, but also the first Native American to do so.