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TIL in 1970, a band manager who killed the manager of a club over $500, was cleared after his lawyer argued that working for his hard partying band had driven the manager mad. A band member even admitted on the stand that he had taken drugs less than an hour before coming to court.

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5VB19 TIL there is at least one known occasion in Ancient Athens where a whole six thousand jurors sat together to judge a single case
6BA8 TIL there was a song written in the 1630s that was performed only in the Sistine Chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of the piece secret for 150 years until the 14-year-old Mozart listened to the piece 2 times, transcribed it from memory, and produced the first unauthorized copy of the song.
J1vV TIL - Josh Wolf served 226 days in prison, longer than any other journalist in U.S. history has served for protecting source materials.
5PPB TIL 75% of babies born prematurely die from hypothermia in the developing world. The incubators sold in Western countries cost up to $20,000 and require electricity. Embrace is a nonprofit that created a baby incubator that costs only $200 and works without electricity.
Yp61Z TIL John Houbolt, who was an early supporter of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous for the Apollo missions, co-wrote a letter concerned the first Shuttle launch would be lost due to the heat tiles being damaged. Such an issue resulted in the loss of shuttle Columbia in 2003.