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TIL 99.7% of Japanese court cases result in conviction

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JYgbV TIL 'Home Alone’ was released in France as ‘Mum, I Missed the Plane’, and ‘Home Alone 2’ as ‘Mum, I Missed the Plane Again and This Time I Am Lost in New York’
b6oZZ TIL C. J. Lewis tried to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II in 1981 and two years later he tried to escape from psych ward to kill Prince Charles
e0kY4 TIL it is illegal in Virginia to have sex if you are unmarried
epbJb TIL Michael Caine fought in the Korean War and saw heavy combat as an infantryman before his career as an actor.
YyxB TIL that to comply with the START I treaty, the US Air Force had to eliminate 365 B-52 bombers from its inventory. Initially, the B-52s were chopped into pieces with a 13,000-pound guillotine supported by a crane.