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TIL courtroom tv judges aren’t actually presiding over civil cases. They’re acting as arbitrators over dramatizations of legal cases that are resolved through a form of binding arbitration.

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WkWE9 TIL of an attempted plane bombing in 1985 where the bomb went off an hour early, while still in the airport. The perpetrators did not realize that Japan does not observe daylight saving time, so the bomb went off before it made in onboard.
kJQG5 TIL a Japanese fisherman lost his boat after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in 2011. The boat ended up drifting across the Pacific Ocean with other tsunami debris and was found in Canada, where it was repurposed to be used in bear-watching operations. He was reunited with the boat in 2015.
v1a17 TIL when Stanley Kubrick made "The Killing", a 1956 noir heist film, the studio demanded he add in a narrator to explain the nonlinear order of events so the audience wouldn't get confused. Kubrick eventually added the narration which gave the audience inaccurate times to confuse them further.
awj49 TIL that youngest siblings are usually the favorite child
y0Yv TIL that in 1978 the United States Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. This allowed the formation of secret courts that can issue warrants and monitor people all over the world.