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TIL Sonja Farsi and Annie Dookhan, two Massachusetts lab technicians were responsible for handing pver 70,000 cases and around 15,000 false convictions by tampering with and intentionally falsifying drug evidence

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j6ran TIL in 1998, a preservation group began restoring Ben Franklin’s residence in London. During their rehabilitation work, they discovered a secret, windowless room under his garden containing the remains of 15 people.
mxx9P TIL There are four different types of OCD. One of them is checking. The checking is often carried out multiple times, sometimes hundreds of times, and for hours on end, resulting in the person being late for work, dates and other appointments.
m1vEo TIL that George Washington was a flexitarian, who ate a diet largely of “a vegitable and milk diet", with a minimum of red meat, and who tried to made sure his army got vegetables to eat
W7ONB TIL With only one exception every single President that's been shot has been has been a Republican.
Z8mPG TIL that in 2006, some army units used Silly String to check enemy encampments for trip wires. Before entering a building, soldiers would squirt the string across the room. If it fell to the ground, it was safe. But if it hung in the air, they knew the room had trip wires.