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TIL that the largest trial in world history was the Maxi Trial against the Sicilian Mafia, that lasted 6 years. Of the 475 mobsters indicted, 338 were convicted and sentenced to a total of 2,665 years, not including life sentences handed to 19 bosses

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NJv6 TIL in 1518 there was a ‘Dancing Epidemic’ in France. One woman started dancing in the street and within a month, some 400 people join her, many who later died of heart attacks, strokes, or exhaustion. Nobody knows why it started or why was it popular.
ZpYkB TIL Women used to wear muzzles as punishment in the 17th century
JY871 TIL that in 4 billion years the Andromeda galaxy will take up much of the Earth’s night sky as it nears our galaxy for collision.
7MM7 TIL cocaine addiction treatment is 7 times more effective in reducing cocaine consumption than law enforcement.
jYkR TIL: Elvis Presley was 24 years old when he started seeing 14 year old Priscilla.