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TIL The Talmud rules that an unanimous verdict by the Sanhedrin (Jewish court) must be thrown out and the defendant must be exonerated! The alleged guilt of the defendant is immaterial and the defendant walks away a free man.

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R7Ymw TIL that Elvis and The Beatles played together only once. No video, no recordings, no pictures, and no press.
jNr0M TIL The idea that eating carrots helps you see in the dark was a lie invented by the British Airforce in WW2, in order to explain how British air raids were so successful in the dark without tipping the Germans off on the existence of radar.
G00Q TIL that bilingual children appear to get a head start on empathy-related skills such as learning to take someone else’s perspective. This is because they have to follow social cues to figure out which language to use with which person and in what setting.
MeoWB TIL that for decades the CIA owned and ran Crypto, a Swiss company that supplied cryptography equipment to many countries; naturally, the machines were rigged to give US spooks access to everyone's communications.
W7QA TIL the most powerful h-bomb in history had a mushroom cloud that reached almost twice as high as the height from which Felix Baumgartner jumped a week ago