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TIL that the current Australian Government under "Scott Morrison" has the longest list of corruption allegations in Australian History

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b1LQ TIL Japan’s justice system largely depends on confessions for convictions. Combined with the expectations (high conviction rate) and that a prosecutor’s career is often over with a non-guilty verdict, methods are often used to get false confessions out of the accused.
ZxoG TIL that “America’s public school teachers almost uniformly now come from the bottom 25 percent of their college classes.”
15jP TIL that a 46 year old man found and attacked a 13 year old kid because the kid killed him too many times in Call of Duty.
vNxL TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD in Roman Syria that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean
dD7Dr TIL Bill Dana, comedian and script writer, most well known for his character Jose Jimenez, had a brother who was an accomplished musician, arranger, and who wrote the theme song to Get Smart. Dana had earlier worked with comedian Don Adams, and wrote what would become his character in Get Smart.