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TIL Oklahoma plans to execute an innocent man in 4 days. Someone else has already confessed to the murder.

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epxwJ TIL that a bite from a lone star tick can make you allergic to red meat permanently.
oBPbo TIL That Japanese people have a literacy rate of almost 100%.
wLVvP TIL until the 1980s all freight trains in the USA and Canada were required to have a caboose with a crew. They were replaced by the "end-of-train device" which detects and reports any problems to the engineer, ending an era in railway history.
YpOwW TIL that prawn and shrimp are not the same animal - they're not even closely related. They are in two different sub-orders of decapoda. As an example of what that means, cats and dogs are in different sub-orders of carnivora.
d8GmQ TIL the oldest company in Ireland is 533 years old. It manufactures candles.