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TIL On average, 4 shipping containers drop into the ocean every day.

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GYyaE TIL that nearly all criminal cases that go to trial in Japan end in a guilty verdict - the country have a 99.9% conviction rate.
j6KmX TIL The official "Fastest Escape from a Regulated Posey Straitjacket" is 2.84 seconds, set by Danilo Audiello at the Studio Fleming Medicina Generale, Foggia, Italy, on 11 August 2014.
GAA14 TIL for a person to be able to stand for election to the UK Parliament, they must possess citizenship of either UK, Ireland or any of the 53 Commonwealth of Nations member-countries (UK is the 54 member).
pOlQ TIL that the right-brain left-brain personality split is only a myth.
78J1P TIL During the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King had originally prepared a different speech than the one we know today. He departed from it after he heard singer Mahalia Jackson cry out: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!". He then partly improvised the now famous "I have a dream" speech.