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TIL of Paul Modrowski: Sentenced to life in prison for supposedly lending his car to someone who supposedly murdered a man, even though that person has since been ACQUITTED. He’s been in prison for almost 20 years. He’s kept a blog meticulously detailing his experiences.

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1a1lW TIL China has 7 coffee shops that are a blatant ripoffs of Starbucks, competing with actual Starbucks without any legal consequences.
4X0gN TIL that the Torch Relay in the Olympic Games was actually invented by Germans in 1936 as political propaganda used by the Nazis to promote their cause in conjunction with the Olympics.
rYae TIL the last letter George Harrison wrote in his life was to Mike Myers to tell him how much he enjoyed Austin Powers
b9vK0 TIL that an anonymous Brit drew penises around potholes in Manchester to force authorities to stop delaying fixing them. It worked
B7r TIL Ugland House in the Cayman Islands has over 18,000 companies registered in the five story building, yet the law firm that owns it (Maples and Calder) claims it’s not for tax evasion purposes.