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TIL about an innocent man on death row

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1admV TIL that in the early 1970s, the US and China engaged in "ping-pong diplomacy," in which players from each country would compete with each other at table tennis. This form of diplomacy was a key way of defusing Sino-American tensions, and led to Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing in 1972.
OYp6 TIL that armed citizens shoot and kill more criminals than police and have fewer incidents of mistakenly identifying the criminal.
N7mXM TIL about Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS) which causes individuals to be temporarily or permanently perceived to be speaking with a foreign accent
wWOW TIL that escape velocity of Deimos, one of Mars’s moons, is 20km/h - meaning you could easily throw something, or even ride a bike off a ramp, out of its gravity
7rjlp TIL that approx 50 percent of the flavor compounds in a wine are liberated or created by yeast, a wild yeast mostly. That's why the same grape species in different regions provides different wine flavor.