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TIL: Cultured pearls may have only 0.5 mm of pearl on a resin bead

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VMpnD TIL: Researchers examined more than 1,000 decisions by eight Israeli judges who ruled on convicts’ parole requests. Judges granted 65 percent of requests they heard at the beginning of the day’s session and almost none at the end. Right after a snack break, approvals jumped back to 65 percent again.
kJ4y4 TIL when Stalin mispronounced a word while giving a speech, all subsequent speakers felt obliged to repeat the mistaken pronunciation in order to avoid the perception that they were correcting him.
Ld8d TIL In 1997 Charles Barkley was in court because he threw a man out of a first floor window during a bar fight. When asked by a judge if he regretted anything he replied, “yeah, I regret we weren’t on a higher floor.”
RJjw TIL bats make up 25% of all mammal species
VM8L8 TIL that screensavers were originally created to save CRT screens from burning an image into the display due to prolonged, unchanged use.