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TIL the US has similar income inequality to Russia and China

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1kdV TIL Will Purvis, who was convicted of murder in 1894 and had always maintained his innocence, told the jury he would “live longer than the lot of them”. He survived a hanging, was re-incarcerated, and eventually pardoned and released. He died in 1938, three days after the last juror had died.
v1DVR TIL the Futurama Cast Did a Cover of Punk Rock Band, Black Flag's "TV Party" (Henry Rollins)
KLAw TIL that there is a easy and free Tinnitus remedy that stops ringing in the ears by tapping the index fingers at the back of your head.
XEmMR TIL In 1998, the United States Department of Justice filed suit against Microsoft, in essence claiming that Microsoft included too much functionality in its operating systems and thus prevented application vendors from competing.
JYyGB TIL that British Member of Parliament Robert Pakington was probably the first person to be murdered by a handgun - in 1536. The case remains the oldest recorded unsolved murder in the UK.