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TIL that juries have brought attention to societal issues through verdicts

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6EJZm TIL about the YONSHAKUDAMA, the world’s largest firework weighing in at 420 KG. It is fired every year in Japan.
4dno TIL that Christians only started believing in literal 6-day Creationism during the last 100 years.
YRYv TIL that when Pope John Paul II visited Chile, he asked a crowd of tens of thousands to refuse greed and consumerism –to which they replied «yes», to reject the idol of power, «yes», but when he asked them to reject the idol of «sex and pleasure», the whole stadium replied an outright «NO!»
b91P7 TIL the PX symbol commonly seen on pill bottles in American Film/TV is actually Rx, used for prescriptions
oRY7R TIL the Battle of Antietam during the US Civil War saw 53,632 Union soldiers against 30,646 Confederate soldiers. The 12 hours of brawl led to 22,727 casualties from both sides, and became a major turning point in the Union's favor.