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TIL that prosecutors who hid evidence that would have cleared a man who was sentenced to death were not able to be punished according to the Supreme Court

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4kMOb TIL: LaserDiscs were first marketed and sold in 1978 — and they were originally called DiscoVision! 🪩🕺🏼
neem9 TIL- Even GitLab Has GitHub Account!
7rveZ TIL that Dim, the rhinoceros beetle from A Bug's Life (1998), had no known reference in nature until the Megaceras briansaltini was discovered in 2007. This phenomena, of nature mimicking art, was coined the Dim Effect by its discoverer.
kJPng TIL Jamie Foxx’s real name is Eric Marlon Bishop
mj4R TIL in 1967, a magazine published a fake story about extracting hallucinogenic chemicals from bananas to raise moral questions about banning drugs. People didn’t realize it was a hoax and began smoking banana peels to try to get high.