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TIL the term "butterfly effect" in chaos theory did not have its origin in a Ray Bradbury short story

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LQpdd TIL that until the 1967 Supreme Court case In re Gault, juveniles accused of crimes in the US did not have the same due process rights as adults. The case involved a 16 year-old sentenced to 6 years in juvenile detention for a prank call, a crime for which adults had a maximum sentence of 2 months.
PYYEG TIL bears and seals share a common ancestor under the infraorder Arctoidea, the same infraorder that also includes red pandas, skunks, wolverines and more in Musteloidea.
grLA8 TIL an intoxicated Alaska man shot a hole in the Alaska Pipeline with a high powered rifle, spilling 285,000 gallons of oil into the Alaska Wilderness.
VrGB TIL The Unibomber sent an update for his Harvard reunion. He put prisoner under occupation and his eight life sentences under awards. The update was published in the official reunion book.
8mmG TIL An Ethiopian Olympic runner couldn’t find a comfortable pair of shoes, so he ran the 1960 Olympic Marathon in Rome barefoot, finished first, and set a new World Record.