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TIL that in 2008, an Australian court case costing over a million dollars had to be aborted when it was realized that five out of the twelve jurors were playing Sudoku instead of paying attention.

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v5aB TIL of several unusual units of measurement, including the nanocentury (3.155 seconds), pony (0.75 ounces of liquor), light-foot (amount of time it takes light to travel one foot, or 1.0167 nanoseconds), banana equivalent dose (amount of radiation absorbed from eating a banana), and more.
Ypj5B TIL Chinese Checkers is an American named adaptation of a German game that originated in Britain.
Dpe TIL Human Hair has about the same tensile strength as steel of the same width
P1bjE TIL about the Roman soldier named Pantera. In Celsus' book "The True Word", Jesus was depicted as the result of an affair between his mother Mary and this soldier. Both the ancient Talmud and medieval Jewish writings reinforced this notion by referring to Jesus as "Jesus, son of Pantera"
GYRm1 TIL that NASA makes a movie poster every time the send an expedition to the international space station. Some of the themes are The Matrix, Star wars and Pirates of the Caribbean.