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TIL that while investigating the Mississippi Burning case, authorities found the murdered bodies of 9 other black men unrelated to the 3 Civil Rights workers they were there to find.

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lo17G TIL Two German brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler, worked together during WWII making sports shoes. After a huge fall out between the two, they split up and started their own rivalry firms - Adidas and Puma.
R5m77 TIL Hamlet was inspired by Amleth, a Scandanavian figure with a similar name (except the H is in different spot)
lYxB TIL that in the ‘Clerks’ credits, the boom mike holder was credited as 'Whoever grabbed the pole’.
YE7v TIL John Smith was a pirate, beheaded three Turks in jousting matches while fighting for the Holy Roman Army, and was enslaved in Russia until he escaped by killing his master. He did all this before he set sail for present day Virginia, United States.
Z8kAp TIL that the tallest pyramid in the world is a hotel in North Korea. Constructed in 1992, the Ryugyong Hotel has no finished interior as a result of an economic crisis and famine that hit in the following year, and was edited out of official photographs and maps until 2008.