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TIL: Insanity is not a medical term, but a legally-defined term used to determine culpability in criminal trials.

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nemJ7 TIL the generation who grew up watching black-and-white TV experienced predominantly colourless dreams, until the widespread of colour television in the 1960s.
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16ldd TIL that in 4 billion years, when the Milky Way galaxy collides with the Andromeda Galaxy, the distance between the stars will be so vast that none of the 1.3 trillion stars are expected to collide.
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