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TIL 10% of Florida's adult population are felons

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9wbGG TIL that Sweyn Forkbeard was the first Viking king to rule England. He massacred, plundered, and burned his way through the countryside, capturing London on Christmas Day 1013. He died just 40 days later. Upon his death the previous king Æthelred the Unready came back and retook his throne.
mx9Xy TIL your brain/eyes will generate a "light show" (known as the Prisoner's Cinema) if kept in darkness for long periods of time. The phenomenon is reported by prisoners confined to dark cells and by others kept in darkness as well as; truck drivers, pilots and practitioners of intense meditation.
nWwVd TIL that Charles Clyde Ebbets took the famous 1932 photo "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper," showing construction workers eating lunch on a steel beam high above NYC. Despite its popularity, his authorship wasn’t officially recognized until 2003, when his family provided evidence confirming his role.
JAMk TIL - Percy Foreman, a lawyer who defended James Earl Ray, handled 1500 death penalty cases. He lost only 53, and only one of his clients was executed.
b9v64 TIL President Franklin Pierce didn't swear his oath of office on a Bible. Weeks after his election, Pierce was in a train accident, in which he witnessed his son die before his eyes. He didn’t take the oath on a Bible because he believed his son’s death was God’s judgment for his campaigning.