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TIL during the French Revolution , Robespierre law of 22 Prairial, year II (June 10, 1794), streamlined revolutionary justice, denying the accused any effective right to self-defense and eliminating all sentences other than acquittal or death. Leading to almost 800 execution/month

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Kw04 TIL that in 2013, the first night of Hannukah will fall on the American Thanksgiving day, 11/28/13. This has never happened before, and it will not happen again until the year 79,811.
nyD9 TIL that Disney almost made a Toy Story 3 without Pixar’s involvement. The story involved Buzz Lightyear toys being recalled for manufacturing defects and being shipped off to Taiwan. The film was almost in production stages before being scrapped by Pixar.
6EZwY TIL a song that has been used as background music on SpongeBob SquarePants since the show started is an old rag piece composed 100 years earlier
RoZl TIL Exposure to platinum causes snails to turn into slugs
95Dm TIL that in the year 2000, Intel predicted that we would have 10GHz processors by the year 2011.