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TIL that beginning in 2010 a man named Kalief Browder was imprisoned for three years without trial at Riker's Island under suspicion of stealing a backpack, and spent 700 of those days in solitary confinement. He killed himself shortly after release.

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0w8YA TIL, Joseph Beyrle, an American Paratrooper, fought for both the US and the Soviet Union in WW2. He was captured in Normandy, sent to a POW Camp, escaped, joined the Red Army and liberated the camp he had just escaped from. He later met Marshal Zhukov and won the Purple Heart for his Service.
P1peL TIL About a 2009 boating accident that Nick Schuyler survived while his three friends, including NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, died. (Without Hope, by Nick Schuyler and Jeré Longman, and Joe Carnahan said to be working on adaptation)
p8M9p TIL that the Chicagoland Tylenol murders still remain unsolved and no one was ever charged. In 1982, 7 people were murdered via cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules; leading to industry-wide tamper-proof seals and phasing out of capsules.
GAZWE TIL a book club in California spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, beginning in 1995 and finishing in October 2023. At first the club read two pages per month, however it eventually slowed to just one page per month. In November, the group started the book again.
Y1aZ TIL that scientists recently discovered giant viruses (as big as 1 μm in length), named Pandoraviruses. Because more than 93% of their genes resemble nothing known and their origin cannot be traced back to any known cellular lineage, scientists suggest the existence of a 4th domain of life