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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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dGdE TIL that cave systems were recently discovered beneath Antarctica which are warm enough to wear t-shirts in, and in which it is said a “lost world” of new animals and plants may exist
P1XOJ TIL if we checked 296 thousand trillion trillion trillion routes per second since time began, we would not be done finding all possible routes connecting 48 points.
RpD6 TIL China returns all illegal immigrants from North Korea which usually imprisons them in a short term facility. Women who are suspected of being impregnated by Chinese fathers are subjected to forced abortions; babies born alive are killed, sometimes by exposure or being buried alive.
nejvb TIL that tongue twister 'she sells seashells by the seashore' is about a real girl named Mary Anning. She also happened to be one of the very first people to discover a massive dinosaur fossil, which she did at age 12 while looking for seashells to sell by the seashore.
kJVdE TIL The fear of long words is called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. A 36-letter word irony apparently intended …try saying that out loud.