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TIL R. Budd Dwyer, from the infamous suicide on tv video, committed suicide after claiming he had been framed and was to be convicted for taking bribes. After his suicide and further investigation, Wiliam T. Smith, who testimony was largely used for Dwyer’s conviction, admitted to lying under oath.

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b6ER9 TIL about Pascal Payet who escaped prison 3 times. On Oct 12, 2001 his friends collected him from a roof with a hijacked copter. In 2003 he returned via helicopter to help 3 more prisoners escape. After being captured again, he escaped two more times, both via helicopter.
b644Q TIL that according to the Cleveland Clinic if you want to remember the correct rate of compressions while performing CPR on an unconscious person, you can follow the beats of songs such as Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive" or "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira - i.e. 100 to 120 times per minute.
dDZ7Q TIL a Finnish nursing home runs a small program where they give subsidised accommodation to students under the condition they spend time with the elderly
Mk58 TIL that when Arthur Guinness started his brewery in Dublin, he signed a 9000 year lease for the factory with annual payments of £45.
NN8E TIL the Yale Club of New York City had sufficient foresight and finances to purchase enough alcohol to quench the thirst of its members throughout the entire 14 years of Prohibition.