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TIL the Doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.

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MeyEA TIL about “shame poles", a type of Totem pole intended to shame people.In Alaska there is a shame pole of Abraham Lincoln, shaming him for not paying back debts to the Tlingit people.
4XBwb TIL that after a botched execution, Willie Francis sued for his freedom arguing that he had been executed, even if he didn’t die. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court which ruled against him. He would later die in the electric chair.
g8l4 TIL Jack Ruby, the guy who killed Oswald on live TV, claimed that the JFK assassination “was an act of overthrowing the government” and that he had been injected with cancer cells in prison to silence him. By 1966, Ruby was dead from cancer in his liver, lungs and brain.
7rwXO TIL that fox's can make a sound that sounds like laughing
nlYB TIL that El Cid, a military leader in the middle ages, was so feared that, after his death, his embalmed body was placed on a horse and sent into battle causing the enemy to flee.