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TIL that two men from Indiana were wrongfully convicted in a 1996 armed robbery because of a false statement from an informant who had sex with the lead detective who set them up. 20 years later, they were found innocent and one of them received $4.9 Million settlement.

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wLZL8 TIL in 1914 the wife of the French PM assassinated a newspaper editor to prevent him from leaking that she and her husband had been dating while still married to their previous spouses. She was acquitted for 'uncontrollable female emotions'
W7Rd8 TIL that falcons are closer related to parrots and songbirds than to other birds of prey.
mxw6O TIL the first knights of Korea were all-female. The name of their order was "Flower Girls". Curiously, they didn't change the name when they started allowing men, and thus the first male Knights were called "flower boys".
7rBMp TIL that the Sheriff of Nottingham from the Disney version of Robin Hood was supposed to be a goat, but was changed to a wolf because the director wanted to stick to traditional animal stereotypes.
jd8v TIL the person most directly responsible for the scale of tragedy of the Titanic was a radio operator who told the closest ship to shut up after it radioed iceberg warnings. As a result the ship shut off its radio. It would easily have arrived in time to save everyone on board.