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TIL that Snooki is an indigenous girl who was adopted from Chile.

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neK97 TIL Carl Sagan convinced NASA to turn the Voyager Spacecraft towards earth and take the iconic “Pale Blue Dot” photo nearly 4 billions miles away from earth
Gv1E TIL : You can’t scan and print banknotes because there is a particular pattern drawn on them, called EURion constellation, that helps image software detect the presence of banknotes in a digital image and prevent counterfeiting.
O1MY TIL Jurors can legally return a ‘not guilty’ verdict if they believe the law is unjust regardless of whether or not the defendant actually committed the crime through a process called 'jury nullification’ but judges rarely inform juries of this power.
emB4 TIL That Japan has 2GB/s Internet
dD4DK TIL that Spiro Mounds, a Native American "King Tut's Tomb", were ransacked, desecrated, and destroyed by a group of local treasure hunters in 1935, and is considered the worst looting of an archaeological site in US history.