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TIL that "Rotel Tours" operates converted travel buses equipped with up to 14 sleeping cabins, providing guests with the opportunity to embark on remote tours.

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7r4DL TIL about Blackstone's ratio, the idea that, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Blackstone's principle influenced the nineteenth-century development of "beyond a reasonable doubt" as the burden of proof in criminal law.