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TIL a Washington detective forged letters sent to the presiding judge to get a better sentence

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5YxmQ TIL about Manganese Nodules. Found at the bottom of the ocean these rock concentrations contain all the components needed for electric car batteries. Its estimated to there are enough nodules to create over 200 million batteries in one patch alone. Their worth is estimated up to 16 trillion dollars.
ZOGR TIL Joseph Müller was sentenced to death for telling a political joke in Nazi Germany
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