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TIL of Allison Jenkins, who was convicted of felony murder of a police officer after the arresting police officer accidentally shot and killed his own partner

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ZEoD TIL Instead of sending labor over to China or Bangladesh, manufacturers have chosen to forcibly employ up to 2.4 million incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a product you’re holding says it is ‘American Made,’ it was made in an American prison.
98DM TIL that the flashes of color you see in your eye after you rub them are called phosphenes.
r8wx TIL that an American POW in Vietnam blinked the morse code for TORTURE during a propaganda interview.
d6V7 TIL The movie “The 13th Warrior”(1999), starring Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif, bombed and was panned so critically that Sharif temporarily retired from acting
jNrjN TIL the resistance of a rabbit is somewhere between 120 and 340 ohm per cm