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TIL 99.7% of Japanese court cases result in conviction

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ep7n5 TIL Scientists studying visual perception superglued patches on cuttlefish to Velcro 3D glasses on them. The cuttlefish kept the glasses on long enough for the research team to determine that they have stereo vision (like humans).
yQnr8 TIL if you unfurled all of your DNA in your body, it would stretch out at an incredible 10 billion miles. This means that your DNA would reach the sun and back 600 times.
o6kL TIL dolphins will play with whales by lying on the whale’s head while the whale slowly raises it above the water’s surface
QNJZ9 TIL that a Marylin Monroe impersonator lives in the real Marylin Monroe's old house.
ONO4 TIL the Chinese government has forcefully harvested organs from roughly 65,000 political prisoners