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TIL for every nine people executed in the U.S., one person on death row has been exonerated.

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oBbKo TIL that a company called Tweeter had its most active stock trading day in its history five years after it went out of business, after traders mistook their stock for that of Twitter, causing the price of the defunct company's shares to rise 1,000%
WNJ9 TIL there is an adapter for a computer mouse to help people who have hand tremors use computers more easily.
nZnB TIL that three Klansmen, including an FBI informant, forced a black man to jump to his death from a bridge 150 feet into a river. An Alabama judge dropped the case because “Merely forcing a person to jump from a bridge does not naturally and probably lead to the death of such a person.”
jNeE TIL that George Washington thought 40,000 people was too many for 1 congress member to represent and supported an alteration to reduce that number to 30,000. Today, each member of the House of Representatives represents approximately 690,000 people.
VBWKm TIL: That George Miller, the man behind the "Filthy Frank" persona has rebranded as an R&B singer named Joji and is currently in the top 200 most streamed artists.