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TIL Ernesto Miranda's supreme court case led to the Miranda rights (“you have the right to remain silent...”). Miranda himself was later killed in a bar fight. His killer got away with it... because he chose to remain silent.

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X0JVk TIL Rijeka, the third largest city of Croatia, was once invaded by Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio and 300 volunteers after World War I. The city then became the first Fascist state of the world.
DbkD TIL that if the Netherlands stopped all water management 40% of the country would be flooded within weeks.
JY9r4 TIL in 1985, a teenage kid in Detroit was beaten up so badly, he severely injured his face, legs and back. He recovered from the injuries and grew up to become one of the most successful rap artists of all time under the stage name Eminem
x6agb TIL that some mountain climbers carry their own waste in their backpacks.
0D1L TIL that in 1994, the Surgeon General of the United States was fired for saying masturbation is “part of human sexuality, and perhaps should be taught.”