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TIL That Arthur Bremer Missed the Opportunity to Assassinate Nixon, because He Went Back to His Hotel to brush his teeth and change his suit.

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KY6ZE TIL an FBI whistleblower reported multiple problems in forensic cases. After years of the FBI seeking to ruin him, his claims were investigated and a report showed that forensic hair analysis was flawed or inaccurate over 90% of the time.
xV1 TIL That the SAS defied orders and launched an unauthorised strike to rescue two of their own men from Iraqi police when officials proved unwilling to make the decision.
d8Ker TIL the first recorded death sentence in the British North American colonies was carried out in 1608 on Captain George Kendall, who was executed by firing squad at Jamestown colony for spying for the Spanish government.
GAJlQ TIL that the world’s oldest known living tree is over 9,500 years old and is located in Sweden.
Lkwjr TIL that in 1991 a US missile accidentally killed 28 people due to an error in how numbers were stored in the computer controlling the missile.