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TIL no woman has ever run a sub-4 minute mile

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KOwG9 TIL that you are guaranteed a lawyer if you cannot afford one (in the U.S.) because a poor man was convicted unjustly, began reading law in prison, and wrote the Supreme Court, saying that he should have been given a lawyer despite his lack of money. He was retried and acquitted.
W7enB TIL there’s a historic carriage house atop a factory in Syracuse, NY. It was updated but locals didn’t like the blue color so it was painted the original shade. Now, it’s a 128 unit affordable housing development
KYglR TIL that Adrien Deschryver, the Belgian conservationist "hero" from the popular youtube video "Man gets Charged by a Gorilla" forced thousands Batw (pygmy) a out of their villages, which were burned to the ground or otherwise destroyed
Opk1 TIL The piece that holds the rotor blades to the helicopter is known as the “Jesus nut”
Z8GB TIL the loudest events in the universe are starquakes. The largest ever recorded was in 2004, the star Magnatar SGR 1806-20 adjusted itself with the force equal to 22.7 on the Richter scale. It happened 50,000 ly away from Earth, but if it was 10 ly away, it would have caused mass extinction.