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TIL the richest man in Asia has the last name Ka-shing

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wLkJ8 TIL Japan's criminal justice system has a conviction rate of over 99%. To Japanese citizens and police, the arrest itself already creates the presumption of guilt which needs only to be verified via a confession.
epmaD TIL while filming the scene in 1983’s “A Christmas Story” where Ralphie is dressed as a sheriff, a prop man gave actor Peter Billingsley real Red Man chewing tobacco. Peter, who was 12, didn’t know the difference and ingested it. Production then had to be shut down until Billingsley recovered.
E11rP TIL that North Korea has only 724 km of paved roads, one-fourth of tiny Luxembourg which has 2,899 km
Bg0Ze TIL about the Horseshoe Crab and how this ancient creature has been exploited by medical laboratories with little regulation.
QNKda TIL after murdering a woman in 1821, convicted killer John Horwood was hanged, had his body dissected and his skin was used to bind a book that contained the details of his crime in a practice called anthropodermic bibliopegy.