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TIL when Eadweard Muybridge, pioneer of photographic studies of motion, shot his wife's lover he was acquitted by jury trial because the homicide was considered "justifiable".

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YpAB7 TIL that ONLY Air Force planes are called Air Force One when carrying the president. "Marine One" and "Navy One" are used for presidential flights on aircraft by those branches, and there has been one "Executive One" flight on a civilian aircraft.
N7kGb TIL pornography involving characters with the appearance of minors is proctected by the First Amendment, as long as the actors themselves are of legal age.
N70bP TIL the male platypus is venomous and the venom is painful, immediate, long-lasting, and impervious to painkillers.
wLb0o TIL Steven King has an award winning (on his own merit) son, who is the writer of the book the AMC series NOS4A2 is based on
epNZE TIL that Canadian law mandates that 35% of radio and 55% of television broadcasts must “at least partly written, produced, presented, or otherwise contributed to by persons from Canada.”