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TIL Ernesto Miranda, namesake of the Miranda warning, was murdered and the person suspected of killing him invoked his Miranda rights and was never charged

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j6NKX TIL that European football fans used to throw bananas onto the field to taunt players of African descent.
WkNYB TIL after slavery in the United States was outlawed by the 13th Amendment in 1865, the Abolitionist newspaper The Liberator reorganized itself as a general news magazine and is now known as The Nation.
LWed TIL Perfluorodecalin can store about a quarter its weight in oxygen, making it a potentially breathable liquid for humans
7jpp TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century confidence trickster who fooled over 500 people over 5 years to buy land in a fictional Latin American country called Poyais he claimed had been made ruler of. About half of the people who bought land died. He made a fortune, and was later tried and aquitted.
OGDJa TIL that both Al Pacino and Robert De Niro are two of the oldest fathers on record, fathering children at the ages of 83 and 79 respectively.