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TIL that gorillas fart almost nonstop due to their fibrous diet

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6O77 TIL that a man served 31 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and the state compensated him only $75.
7Z5p TIL that in 2000, an Oklahoma schoolgirl was suspended for casting a spell on her teacher, which allegedly made him ill and caused him to be hospitalized.
yQGbJ TIL that General Motors chemist Thomas Midgley Jr. invented both chlorofluorocarbons and leaded gasoline, having "more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."
ORlL TIL sleeping on your stomach can lead to more erotic dreams
QJ6Aa Today I Learned about Operation Legacy, a covert program by the British Foreign Office to destroy colonial documents in order to "avoid embarrassment". In 2011, victims of the British response to the Mau Mau Uprising helped unearth 20,000 of the surviving documents that were classified.