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TIL of John Galvan, a wrongfully convicted man was released after 35yrs thanks to Mythbusters. He was forced to sign a confession to lighting a Molotov with a cigarette, killing two men. One day, in his cell, watching a rerun of Mythbusters, MB proved this to be impossible, and so he was freed.

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