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TIL of George Stinney, the youngest person ever executed in America, at 14. He was wrongly charged for murder after finding the bodies of two white girls in South Carolina.

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DQBEr TIL that in the 1600s, a conjoined twin was sentenced to death but averted the execution by pointing out that this would also kill his innocent twin brother.
J1naV TIL somebody has won the Kissinger Death Tontine, where people predict(ed) the death of Henry Kissinger after donating to an organization that "undoes some of the damage of US imperialism", winner gets some booze
v1A78 TIL the Maltese language is descended from the time of Muslim Arab control over Malta a millennium ago. The Arab language survived Christian reconquest, but disconnected from the Arab world, absorbed Italian/Sicilian/English vocabulary, evolving into Maltese today. It is written with Latin script.
1aQk8 TIL that the inspiration behind Crocodile Dundee, Rod Ansell, suffered a psychotic break due to amphetamines and went on a rampage, injuring two people and killing a policeman before being shot dead himself
PYg7Z TIL There's a zip file titled '42.zip'. It's known as a zip bomb or 'zip of death' because it's original size is only 42 kilobytes. But when it's uncompressed, it expands to 4.5 petabytes (4,500,000 gigabytes), crashing the antivirus program and then the system.