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TIL Osama bin Laden briefly attended a Quaker high school in Lebanon

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GEWQ TIL that the documentary The Thin Blue Line ended up getting Randall Dale Adams out of the death penalty and freed from prison after 12 years of being wrongly imprisoned. Adams recieved no compensation from the State of Texas. He went on to advocate against the death penalty.
dp6d TIL mixing alcohol with diet drinks boosts intoxication 18% often backfiring for women who are particularly more likely to order them.
9YNmp TIL Liechtenstein is so small Switzerland has invaded it 3 times by mistake. On one occasion the Swiss started a forest fire when they misfired a rocket in bad weather. Another time Swiss cadets stumbled into a Liechtenstein village and they didn’t find out until the Swiss formally apologized.
4XbKX TIL an Arkansas woman filed a lawsuit over artwork in The Little Mermaid, the VHS box art supposedly showing a penis shape and one scene appearing to show a clergyman's erection.
GkRJ TIL that actor Jonathan Goldsmith, who portrays the most interesting man in the world in the Dos Equis commercials, lives on a 50-foot Beneteau sailboat in Marina del Rey.