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TIL about a list of murderers who were released only to murder again.

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LgjZ TIL the reason soap operas look so different compared to most media is because they are shot in 60fps (hence the “soap opera effect”).
MeJAb TIL about the “sverdrup” (Sv), a measurement of flow equal to 1,000,000 cubic meters or 260,000,000 gallons per second. The largest ocean current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, is 125 Sv. As a comparison, all the rivers of the world flowing into the oceans is only about 1.25 Sv.
daBB TIL there is a pro US propoganda news network that broadcasts in multiple languages in many different countries. This news network recieves almost double the federal dollars that PBS recieves, and was illegal for Americans to view up until 8 months ago.
oZVW TIL 70 years ago today Sophie Scholl was guillotined For treason. She led a heroic, though doomed, nonviolent resistance movement against the Nazis.The allies later dropped millions of copies of pamphlets she had written over Germany by plane.
6gYJ TIL that in the 1920’s french scientists found and ate a frozen Mammoth