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nLPB TIL a defense lawyer sat a random person at the defendant’s table. When the prosecution’s only witness, a police officer, was asked to point to the defendant in the room, the cop pointed to the man at the defense table. The real client was declared not guilty; the defense lawyer was held in contempt
kOAN4 TIL The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green, and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
dLxB TIL Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, and it is believed this is because they have become desensitized to suffering
Z8vpp TIL Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe owned roughly one percent of all the money in Denmark, wore a nose made of gold after losing his own in a duel and had a pet moose that he sent out to attend parties in his place until it one night got so drunk that it fell down a flight of stairs and broke its neck
YVGx TIL: Disney’s “Dumbo” was solely made to recoup the financial losses from “Fantasia”. “Dumbo” became an Academy Award winner and saved Disney during WW2