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TIL US you do not actually have the right to a trial by jury unless the sentence is greater than 6 months

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Z8OlD TIL Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA game in 1962 but it was not televised and no video footage of the game has since been recovered. NBA wasnt recognized as being a major sports league and struggled to compete against college basketball. No members of the New York press were at the game
DbRe TIL both of Geddy Lee’s (lead singer/bassist of Rush) parents were Holocaust survivors. First imprisoned at Auschwitz, they were separated to Bergen-Belsen and Dachau; they found each other after Allied liberation, married, and emigrated to Canada.
D1drp TIL about Polish-American painter and sculptor Stanisław Szukalski, who claimed to have dissected his father’s body following a car accident to study its form. The artist, who refused to work from live models, was often asked where he learned anatomy. He always answered, "My father taught me".
jekN TIL that the record for the highest number of children birthed by one woman goes to a Russian couple by the name of Vassilyev, having birthed a total of 69 children over a span of 40 years.
Mkkb TIL Fingerprints are not unique, and a Portland, WA attorney was arrested for the Madrid train bombings because his fingerprint matched an Algerian terrorist.