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TIL that California now requires that jurors be explicitly told that a rape conviction can be based on the accuser’s testimony alone, without corroboration.

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9oG TIL When Rod Serling was a child he was able to entertain himself so well that when his family was on a road trip they all kept quiet to see if he would notice. He didn’t and talked non-stop through the entire car ride.
b9KZZ TIL about Makuragaeshi which are Japanese spirits that visit people at night to flip their pillows over. They're mentioned in stories from the Edo period to modern times. In ancient Japan, they believed the soul left the body during dreams and that it couldn't return if the pillow was flipped.
N7oNQ TIL that George Clooney wanted Julia Roberts for the movie Ocean's Eleven but never met her before. Julia Roberts was charging $20 million a movie at the time so Clooney, unable to afford her, send her a script with a $20 bill with a note, 'I heard you’re getting 20 a picture.' She agreed to do it.
wLDv8 TIL there is an estimated 10 quintillion individual bugs alive on earth right now
vggB TIL in 1899 the southern States had four days of arctic cold, enough to freeze the entire length of the Mississippi River