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TIL that courtroom artists in the UK & Hong Kong draw their sketches from memory as they are not permitted to draw in the court.

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kN6E TIL that the French military actually has the best military record in Europe having won 132 of the 185 battles they fought in the last 800 years
LoQ0 TIL that men are more likely than women to be the victims of violent crime comitted by strangers
xV0DB TIL 92% of global water consumption is used in agriculture.
11XO TIL that if you fly through an “asteroid belt”, you’re probably not gonna see a single asteroid.
awOAL TIL a group of transport fare-dodgers in Paris created an insurance scheme where they paid small amounts into a common fund which was then used when anyone got caught and fined.