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TIL Despite being only 13 percent of the population, African Americans make up nearly half (49 percent) of all wrongful convictions.

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4Pja TIL that North Korea produces its own Android tablet, which comes with a pre-installed copy of Angry Birds
Bggmr TIL that the packaging colour for air-dropped humanitarian ration packs had to be changed from yellow to salmon after someone realised that the same shade of yellow was also used for air-dropped cluster bombs.
GY46j TIL: There is a distinct advantage for drones operating in space: the ability to hide in plain sight among the scattered debris in orbit.
Oo97L TIL Nearly 700 million people get a mosquito-borne illness each year. 19 diseases are transmitted by mosquitoes include Malaria, Dengue, West Nile virus, Keystone virus, Rift Valley fever, La Crosse encephalitis, Chikungunya, Zika fever, etc. Doctors can typically identify a mosquito bite by sight.
4Wk5 TIL: That “33 percent of men in Britain aged between 35 and 60 years are unable to see their penis.”