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TIL that under the Articles of Confederation, Canada could join at any time

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OoM5e TIL that under ancient Jewish law, unanimous conviction was considered as too good to be correct. The absence of dissenting opinions among the judges was seen a proof that the suspect is very probably innocent
mxx4R TIL Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to talk to God.
mx4yO TIL of William Rankin who survived ejecting from his plane and the failure of his parachute, then spent 40 minutes falling through a several-miles-deep cumulonimbus cloud which featured lightning strikes, a hailstorm and what he described as the "feeling" of thunder.
a0g9 TIL that Richard Nixon was gifted two Giant Pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) after his historic visit to China in 1972. They were given to the US as a token of friendship between the two countries.
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