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TIL Chinese courts convict more than 99.9 per cent of defendants

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X6AE TIL that 27 U.S. states are at least partially north of the southernmost part of Canada.
QNlD6 TIL President Nixon had a personal valet, Manolo Sanchez, whom he was so close and depended on the two developed a constructed language "sometimes using words that only the two of them understood".
xkp5 TIL The $800 billion bailout from the US Government was actually $16 trillion.
xMpk TIL a group of Scientists have discovered that cheese contains a protein that the human body recognizes in a fashion similar to addictive drugs, called “casomorphins,” or “casein-derived morphine-like compounds,” prompting one researcher to refer to cheese as “dairy crack.”