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TIL Security guard Richard Jewell, a hero who saved lives at the 1996 Olympic bombing in Atlanta, was wrongfully convicted in the media as a suspect. He wasn't fully exonerated until the actual perpetrator was caught and convicted 9 years later.

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R59l8 TIL about Guinea worm disease, a water borne parasite.
6EBG8 TIL Chinese and Japanese people are superstitious about numbers, particularly the number four, which is considered unlucky because it sounds like the word for “death.” In California, Chinese and Japanese Americans with chronic heart disease are 27% more likely to die on the 4th day of a given month
6EVBQ TIL that, due to Catholic doctrine that discovered territory be placed under the diocese from which the explorers departed, the Diocese of Orlando technically includes the entire Moon.
YpJ4P TIL The when the first McDonald's opened in Moscow in 1990, hours long lines of thousands of people turned out for the grand opening and the long lines persisted into at least 1992.
eQ7n TIL Jimmy Carter supported the elimination of all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana in 1977.