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TIL: Male Jurors are more likely to find fat women guilty

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VKYp TIL of the Fukushima 50. During the 2011 earthquake in Japan, 50 workers at the nuclear power plant would not leave even though 750 others had been evacuated. For four days they kept the reactor from melting down until backup arrived, saving countless lives.
XEJdr TIL In 1966 a relatively unknown young American musician asked to get on stage with Cream and THE guitar God Eric Clapton. He played the song Killing Floor, which Clapton had always said was too difficult to play live. That man was Jimi Hendrix and that became known as "The day Hendrix killed God."
Me1N0 TIL Rabbits can smell their dead relatives in the feces of predators.
Y7xkG TIL of St. Peter Stiftskulinarium, a restaurant in Austria that's believed to have been open since 803 making it the oldest still active restaurant in the world. Its clientele are believed to have included Christopher Columbus, Johann Georg Faust, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
9wL6m TIL One reason England started using prisons was because Public Executions were becoming more of a drunken party vs. a deterrent to crime