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TIL the jury selection process for the 2012 Aurora movie theater shooting lasted three months and summonsed 9,000 candidates, making it the largest jury summons in U.S. history.

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n9Kr TIL that a woman faced fraud charges after a DNA test showed she wasn’t the mother of her own children. She was in fact a chimera.
l7jjG TiL, the Original Definition of Inflation was the Printing of Worthless Dollars.
78oOP TIL: The (now disbanded) British Colour Council produced indexes of named colours for use by government, industry, academia, and horticulture... including colour B.C.C 20 – "N_gger Brown".
lgRB TIl - The word Barbarian came from Greek meaning anyone who does not speak ancient greek because to the Greek, all other languages sounded like : BAR BAR BAR BAR BAR
ADoXa TIL the famous Cristal Champagne was made by Alexander II Tsar of Russia. He feared assassination so he ordered the bottles to be made clear instead of regular dark green so that he could see the bubbles and prevent an explosive being hidden inside.