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TIL when a witness refuses to answer a question because the answer may incriminate him, the judge may force him to answer anyway if he believes the answer actually would not incriminate him.

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0B6L TIL Astronauts lose on average 1% of their bone mass a month. Most of which is excreted in their urine. They literally pee their skeleton out.
6Eb0Y TIL that in 2015, Martin Scorsese directed a 16-minute short film called “The Audition” that served as an advertisement for a Chinese casino. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, with a cameo appearance from Brad Pitt. The budget was $70 million.
erXn TIL some bacteria might generate, and communicate with radio waves.
8aK0b TIL Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut came from Mars. The Mars company that is. She replied to a radio advertisement in 1989 to get the space fairing job.
8eplL TIL that actress Lupita Nyong’o ‘s mtDNA is extremely close to that of “Mitochondrial Eve,” a woman who walked the earth 200,000 years ago, and is the “mother” of us all.