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TIL a man was sentenced to life without parole for accountability murder while the man he was charged for aiding was acquitted by a separate jury

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kDgE TIL there’s a Hell, Michigan; when asked what the town should be called, the founder said “Call it Hell for all I care!”
l7pL7 TIL that during the siege of Leningrad during World War II, 28 scientists chose to die of hunger while protecting the seed vault at the Vavilov Institute rather than eating the seeds
lkO7 TIL George Wallace, the famed segregationist governor of Alabama, got his wife elected to subvert term limits. To do so, he hid her cancer diagnosis from her, lest treatment adversely affect her campaign. The only female Governor of Alabama died less than two hundred days into her term.
x6KPw TIL that the pronghorn is the fastest animal in the Americas and the second fastest in the world running at up to 95 km/h
W7x48 TIL that Rose's lime juice was the world's first commercially produced fruit concentrate.