BgPad TIL there is a man named Sheron Edwards who was sentenced twice for the same crime. He was sentenced to 20 years in Federal Prison for a carjacking, and also sentenced to 20 years in Mississippi state prison for the same carjacking.
rNZ11 TIL Irish convict sent to Australia for theft of ''6 pairs of shoes", escaped several times into the wilderness, with a confession of cannibalism that historians still debate.
NXKge TIL that after 60,000 people were forcibly removed from District Six, Cape Town under apartheid in 1966, the government’s planned white neighbourhood was never built — and the land sat almost entirely empty for decades, a visible scar in the middle of the city.
l7rn7 TIL that Joseon dynasty scholar Kim Chŏnghŭi used 503 different art names throughout his lifetime.
8enla TIL ancient human viruses (HERV) can become awakened from dormant states within our DNA and can contribute to aging
P1oeE TIL: The float glass process was invented by Alastair Pilkington in the mid 1950's and is the basis of most all sheet glass making worldwide.
epXnJ TIL The largest submarine in WW2 were Japanese aircraft carrier submarines that contained 3 "origami" full-sized bombers. Their first mission after completion was to launch "infected flea" bombs on San Francisco, however the mission was aborted due to Japan surrender.
VBDX8 TIL In 1940 the British asked France to hand over the French navy, to prevent the ships falling into German hands. The French refused and started to leave the port, the British then opened fire and killed 1,297 Frenchman, sinking entire navy.
X0ye8 TIL that some coal miners grew so attached to their canaries that they built resuscitation chambers for them
OGdBR TIL: In 1872, American journalist Julius Chambers faked his way into an asylum by posing as a "dangerous maniac." His undercover exposé proved how easily sane people were committed, leading to the release of 12 patients and a rewrite of lunacy laws
69xXJ TIL when Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came out in 1991, MTV prepared a version of the video that included the lyrics running across the bottom of the screen, which they aired when the video was added to their heavy rotation schedule, for people who couldn't understand what Kurt was singing.
wo1V1 TIL that in 2015 Texas police helped a man fake his own death, complete with staged grave photos, after learning his estranged wife was trying to hire a hitman to kill him.