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TIL in 2004 a man in Florida was convicted of 1st degree murder for lending his car to a friend.

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MewoV TIL of Chicago's Leather Archives and Museum, an institution dedicated to preserving leather, kink, fetish, and BDSM history and culture and making it more accessible to the public.
Yykv TIL Iraq used to have one of the worlds largest marshes until Saddam drained them into a desert
OQ96 TIL the US Supreme Court upheld a three-strikes life-imprisonment sentence for $230 worth of fraud
VMMJQ TIL a museum turned an apollo space shuttle into a time capsul in 1976, and plans to re-open it in 2076
j6p4M TIL about Mortimer Taube, a pioneer in information and library sciences, whose "Computers and Common Sense: The Myth of Thinking Machines" (1961) and its analysis/critique of "thinking machines" is still relevant to today's discussions involving artificial intelligence