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TIL the perpetrator of the My Lai massacre had a life sentence of hard labor commuted to 3 years house arrest by President Nixon.

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b6k0N TIL, the island state of Tasmania, shares a 85m long land boarder with the state of Victoria (part of the Australian mainland) due to a surveying error
WkNOB TIL Wagner-Jauregg (1927) managed to cure syphilis by infecting the patient with malaria. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
wY1Y TIL Coca-Cola hired paramilitary hitmen to murder union leaders in Columbia
6EbEw TIL Lichtenstein didn't recognize women's right to vote until 1984
wL0kY TIL that 10-35% of people share the same genetic trait that makes us having to sneeze when looking towards the sun