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TIL that in 2007 a recording of the Kent State shootings was discovered that shows that guardsmen were ordered to fire. The DOJ determined there were insurmountable legal obstacles to reopening the case.

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GYXJG TIL that before Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide, he helped free a Colorado woman who was convicted of murder despite her being handcuffed in the back of a police car at the time. She would have served a life sentence without parole and was freed just one month after his death.
kOx9e TIL Marquette University bought the original manuscripts and multiple working drafts of "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" from J.R.R. Tolkien for only 1,500 pounds (less than $5,000) in 1956. At the time, no other institution had expressed an interest in Tolkien's literary manuscripts.
PYKlO TIL Johnny Carson Craved Time Alone So Much His $80 Million Home Had Only 1 Bedroom.
X0vPr TIL In February 1985, Ugo Vetere, the mayor of Rome, and Chedly Klibi, the mayor of Carthage signed a symbolic peace treaty to officially end the Third Punic War, 2,134 years after it began.
rrM0 TIL that The Majority of Millennials Have $1,000 or Less in Savings