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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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Vj5Z TIL that in 1990 the Providence Journal tested five candidates for mayor with the city-management computer game SimCity. Buddy Cianci, the most successful, won election that year.
rRZny TIL: Kangal dogs have the strongest bite force, at around 743 psi, which is 3x that of a pitbull
kJeM7 TIL there is an actual project aiming to develop a sub gram nano spacecraft with cameras and all and send it to the Alpha Centauri star system with a travel speed of 1/5th of the speed of light
ne1ed TIL that the English language term "smoking" was coined in the late 18th century; before then the practice was known as "drinking smoke".
Ool0e TIL that fast food chain KFC temporarily closed some branches in the UK due to a shortage of chicken supply. As an apology, they ran an ad that rearranged the letters on their chicken buckets to FCK.