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TIL in order to have a fair cross-section of a community, you cannot volunteer for jury duty.

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e07Xk TIL Gun suppressors only reduce damage to ear drums. They do not make gunshots silent
WjpB TIL that one of Charlie Chaplin’s daughter’s, Geraldine Chaplin, played Charlie Chaplin’s mother in the Robert Downey Jour movie “Chaplin”
R7L86 TIL: The British nuclear fuel processing plant Sellafield is so contaminated that pigeons that roosted there and pooped in someone's garden, polluted the garden so much the garden had to be dug up and treated as nuclear waste.
0waBy TIL that ottoman kalkan shields were used from central asia to eastern europe (translation alert!).
mxj4x TIL about American stunt woman Kitty O'Neil. She set the world record for the fastest quarter mile in a hydrogen peroxide powered car.