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TIL Japan blames the decline of fish in oceans on whales and dolphins

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YVnP TIL In 1937 psychic, Wolf Messing, predicted that Adolf Hitler would die if he ever threatened Russia, which angered Hitler and caused Messing to flee to Russia. He was then forced to prove himself for Stalin by convincing a bank teller to give him cash using only a blank piece of paper.
6EWM7 TIL in addition to the protests & death threats Ruby Bridges had to face as the first black kid in a white school, her father lost his job, the local grocery store stopped serving the family, & her sharecropper grandparents were turned off their land.
D74P TIL The Supreme Court has ruled that proof of actual innocence, even proof based on DNA evidence, is not grounds for release from prison (Federal habeas corpus relief).
y1jV TIL an online gamer mortgaged his irl home to purchase a virtual property in the Entropia Universe for $100,000. He later sold the same property called “Club Neverdie” for roughly $635,000.00.
glv4 TIL a man was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank automatically accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.