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TIL in 2012, Wukan ousted the local CPC government over a land dispute and hosted their own election

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d8OO8 TIL that Barry George, the man wrongly convicted of the murder of UK television presenter Jill Dando, was denied compensation as a victim of miscarriage of justice for the 8 years he spent in prison as a judge deemed that he was “not innocent enough to be compensated”.
78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.
pZde TIL an Indian man named Jadav Payeng started planting trees on a barren sandbar at 17. He is now 47 and lives in his own 1360 acre forest which now houses rhinos, tigers, deers, apes and elephants.
4XPQR TIL that baker's yeast, used in making bread, is a single-cell microorganism found on and around the human body
xaE7 TIL a irish youth snatched a homeless mans pet bunny from his arms and threw it off the bridge they were standing on, the homeless man immediately jumped after it and resuscitated the bunny before he passed out and firefighters saved him, the youth was later convicted of torture and animal cruelty