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TIL that a defendant on trial in France is prohibited from being heard under oath. As a result, "a suspect may say whatever he feels fit for his defense, without fear of sanction for perjury".

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QNQBL TIL that when Jim Morrison returned after his absence during the original recording session of the 11-min song “When The Music’s Over,” his bandmates refused to re-record the song. After being persuaded to layer his vocals on the original version, Morrison recorded his vocals in one single take.
v1mO8 TIL that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Completely delegitimizing any ancestral claim to Palestine.
VMJG8 TIL that TV stations in Montana and Michigan were hacked in 2013 to broadcast bogus emergency alerts about zombies. The Montana alert said "the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living." The Michigan stations said the hacks were traced to "an overseas source."
EXgW TIL having a gun in your house no matter the way it is stored does not decrease your chance of homicide. Instead it increases the chances of homicide by 300% and suicide by 500%.
kO1R5 TIL of the Dunning–Kruger effect, where dumb people tend to over-estimate their own intelligence, when in fact they’re not even competent enough to recognize their own ineptitude.