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TIL “Corpus Delicti” is the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime.

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epB65 TIL Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd Century BCE was the first to present the model of the Sun as the center of our Solar system and also placed the other known planets in correct order of distance from the sun. He also correctly surmised that stars were other far distant suns.
9YEyX TIL Manny Pacquiao ran away from home and lived in a cardboard box after his drunk father ate his dog.
ADpNd TIL that an Austrian Diplomat writing an antisemitic book about the evilness of Jews came to a different conclusion before it was published, declaring that "antisemitism amounted to nothing more credible than fanatical religious hatred"
rREao TIL: Despite Area 51 operating as early as 1955, it was only publicly acknowledged by the CIA in 2013.
aww9M TIL that since the term Least Developed Country was introduced by the UN in 1971 only four countries have improved to Developing Countries (Botswana in 1994, Cabo Verde in 2007, Maldives in 2011 and Samoa in 2014)