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TIL that Joyce Gilchrist, a forensic chemist who falsified results in high profile cases, worked on 23 death sentence cases, 12 of whom were executed, was never charged with any crime

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gONA TIL that Brian May, the guitarist of Queen, built an electric guitar from scratch with his father when he was 16 years old, and called it the Red Special. He used that same guitar for his entire career, and it is his most prized possession.
gMpey TIL about triplets that were deliberately separated at birth by their adoption agency. After investigative journalist, Lawrence Wright, looked into the matter, it was revealed the triplets were part of a scientific experiment by Dr. Peter B. Neubauer.
YgXr TIL that when Manfred von Richtofen (the Red Baron) was shot down and killed in 1918, the British Army gave him a full military funeral, complete with clergy, a gun salute and a wreath inscribed with, “To Our Gallant and Worthy Foe.”
m1Lkx TIL about Pink Panthers, an international jewel thief network, responsible for over 350 robberies totaling over $500 million, with dozens of members breaking out of prisons worldwide.
RX16 TIL Dogs are used in courtrooms to help child crime victims tell their stories