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TIL that the US has more ICU beds per capita than any other country

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E87x TIL An inmate on death row pleaded for DNA testing which was denied. After his execution, Virginia refused additional public demand for the test, worried it would confirm that they’d “executed an innocent man.” The evidence was then destroyed.
nWw17 TIL the movie Rollerball (2002 version) was released with a PG-13 rating but was filmed and later released in an R rated version, which contained only "3 minutes of discarded violence and nudity" not used in the PG-13 version.
Z8myD TIL of Dwayne Stafford, the man who became a legend by sneaking out of his jail cell and beating Dylan Roof, the shooter of a church in Charleston, SC. He then began a GoFundMe account, and earned enough money for bond, and the legend grew
d8G67 TIL: Dennis Rodman only has 28 siblings, previously thought to be 46, according to his father Philander.
woDG1 TIL When musician Prince died, he left behind a vault containing nearly 8,000 unreleased songs but he had forgotten the combination. Measuring 6 1/2 feet tall, several feet wide, and weighing 6,000 pounds, the massive vault required a professional safecracker to break into it