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TIL that the Indian judicial system does not have juries because of a case in 1959 that was heavily influenced by the public and the media.

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8eQ4Z TIL that the US is still minting half dollar coins
W7od TIL Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the USA
7rEAL TIL: There's a Gorilla in Japan who is famous for being so handsome that women go ape over him. Shibani the Gorilla is so ikemen (a really good looking guy) that he was made the official spokesman for the Higashiyama Zoo.
Pp4L TIL that Shingo, a small village in Japan, claims to be the burial place of Jesus Christ and his younger brother Isukiri
Zpm7v TIL that DNA is not instructions for cells to build the organism, just a list of proteins that cells can make. Scientists still aren’t sure how cells cooperate to build tissues & bodies