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TIL Issac Wright Jr. served nine years of a life sentence related to drug charges before being exonerated. He studied law feverishly while he was imprisoned, and in 2017 he was sworn in as a licensed attorney and granted admission to the bar of the New Jersey Supreme Court

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m1YMM TIL that Vince Guaraldi, the jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip, including their signature melody "Linus and Lucy" was a friend of the Grateful Dead, was on one of their album covers, and even sat in with the band.
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