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E1bjp TIL Richard Phillips spent 45 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit — the longest verified sentence to have been served in error in America
OG4DY TIL: Panther is a general word, it does not refer to a species of wild cat. Panther is most commonly used to describe three different types of cat in the wild: leopards and jaguars in their black form, and pumas in Florida and the eastern US
4XXYJ TIL the first e-commerce was a drugs deal in the early 1970s
Jl8v TIL that between the time it was discovered and the time it was unclassified as a planet, Pluto did not even complete one revolution around the sun. It will complete its revolution in the year 2178.
d01E TIL in 1990, a 15-yo Kuwaiti girl testified to US Congress that Kuwaiti babies were being taken out of their incubators by Iraqi soldiers and left to die. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of a US ambassador & that her testimony was part of a PR campaign to sell the war to the public.