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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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Bgvyy TIL about “The Hum”- a global constant sound that’s making some people mad. Can you hear it?
MePLm TIL The Talmud rules that an unanimous verdict by the Sanhedrin (Jewish court) must be thrown out and the defendant must be exonerated! The alleged guilt of the defendant is immaterial and the defendant walks away a free man.
6XaJ TIL that there is a statue outside the Paris museum Pompidou celebrating Zinedine Zidane’s last match where he headbutted Marco Materazzi in the WC final ‘06
gM5GD TIL that the furthest detected individual star is 14.4 billion light years from Earth. We can detect it from so far away because gravity from objects between us and the star have warped its light, magnifying it 2000 times and focusing the star's light onto Earth for telescopes to pick up.
BrGWx TIL At the former Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, West African students are still making the most of Cold War ties with the USSR