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TIL of Messiah A. Johnson, an innocent man, who was convicted of robbing a Ghent beauty salon in 1998 and sentenced to 132 years in prison. He was only freed after about 20 years into his sentence by the Innocence Project.

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b9Mn7 TIL that only seven states have banned mandatory microchipping of humans
GBJg TIL That while hundreds of students get perfect SAT scores each year, no student has EVER gotten a perfect score on China’s 9-hour equivalent, the Gaokao, a test taken by close to 10M people each year.
MGx7 TIL as well as receiving sword taps to the shoulders, a gentleman might also get a ritual slap across the face as a final affront he’d have to accept prior to becoming a fully-fledged knight
BeDL TIL that Samuel L Jackson was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr’s funeral
ngj9 TIL that during World War II a Dutch minesweeper evaded the Japanese for eight days disguised as an island. The crew covered the decks in cut trees and painted exposed surfaces to look like rocks. They moved only at night and anchored closed to shore by day, eventually escaping to Australia.