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TIL that a state judge in Jim Crowe Alabama sacrificed his career in order to grant a new trial to a black teenager falsely accused of rape.

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mxw0x TIL about the Singing Revolution which was a series of events between 1987 and 1991 in the Baltic States which incorporated the singing of patriotic songs as a method of protest against the Soviet Union. These events would ultimately result in the Baltic State gaining their independence.
v15vK TIL Sarcasm is illegal in North-Korea, especially if the intent is to criticize the government.
6Eg0w TIL That employees who work at Jack Daniels get a free bottle of Jack Daniels with their paychecks on the first Friday of every month.
yvYl TIL that a man’s investments were prevented from growing to their full extent out of fear that they would exceed the value of the world.
AN6Va TIL, of the "bubble of extraterritoriality" enacted by law around the person of then pregnant Princess Juliana of the Netherlands (who fled Nazi occupation in 1940) in 1942, with the purpose of ensuring the eligibility of her issue for the royal succession.