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TIL In 1987, genetic fingerprinting (DNA profiling) was used in a US criminal court for the first time. The convicted criminal served twenty-two years in prison.

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1abyV TIL Christopher Lee, AKA count Dooku, served in the British SAS as a spy during WWII saying, "I've seen many men die right in front of me - so many in fact that I've become almost hardened to it."
RYW7 TIL that in 1939, Maine Rep. Cleveland Sleeper introduced a bill to make it illegal to add tomatoes to clam chowder.
JO8V Today I learned that the price of admission for a zoo in 18th century England was a dog or a cat – they were fed to the lions.
wWyE TIL that the Yellow Star imposed upon Jewish citizens in Nazi Germany was not a Nazi invention but originated in Medina under Islam in the 8th century
jGxn TIL of the Toyger, a cat bred to look like a miniature tiger.