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TIL those maple seed "helicopters" are called samaras!
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TIL of the 2016 case of State of Georgia vs Denver Fenton Allen where a routine pre-trial hearing turned into a wild and graphic shouting match between the Judge and the defendant. The creators of Rick and Morty animated the incident using the transcript verbatim.
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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.
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TIL Van Morrison was so upset at his record label for the crappy contract that he recorded 31 crappy songs on purpose to fulfill his contractual obligations. They weren't released until 2017 and only got out of his Bang Record contract when Bert Berns died of a heart attack.
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Tuberculosis has killed some of the most influential people in history. Popular names include Pocahontas, George Orwell, Andrew Jackson, Franz Kafka, Jane Austin, John Smith, Frederic Chopin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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TIL that wasps are just as important as bees