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TIL Alan Turing wasn't pardoned until 2013 for 'Gross Indecency' because of his sexuality despite shortening the length of WW2 by 5 years and being considered the father of modern computing, his work saved thousands of lives

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Ky89 TIL: John Delorean (designer of the Delorean DMC-12 “back to the future” car) was arrested for conspiracy to traffic narcotics, after being set up by FBI. Delorean was saved from prison after publisher Larry Flynt obtained and released tapes and documents that proved his innocence.
DQAmr TIL of a less famous battle at Thermopylae where the Gauls beat the Greeks at 279BC
xVMYk TIL During the NYC blackout of 1977, the crew filming “Superman” outside the old Daily News building on 42nd Street lent their klieg lights to the editors so they could see the newspaper pages they were laying out.
9wkLr TIL one of the holiest sites in Shinto, the Ise Grand Shrine in Japan is rebuilt completely using traditional materials and methods every 20 years, costing ~500 million USD every time. This includes everything inside the complex except the Sacred Mirror. The next scheduled rebuilding is in 2033.
Y7jZ TIL that former journalist Solomon Shereshevsky appeared to have no limits on his ability to memorize, memorizing poems in foreign languages (which he could not understand) within minutes and recalling them verbatim years later; however he could not recognize faces because they were so “changeable.”