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TIL that no matter the evidence, if a jury feels a law is unjust, it is permitted to “nullify” the law rather than finding someone guilty

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9wQj6 TIL Reynolds Wrap was founded in 1919 to make foil wrappers for the new concept of packs of cigarettes (Camel, 1913) of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., who later expanded to include Winston, Salem, Newport, Pall Mall. The Founder of Reynolds Wrap was the nephew of R.J. Reynolds, Richard Reynolds.
lbNa TIL that in 2015, two day care employees in New Jersey were imprisoned for running a toddler fight club among a dozen boys and girls aged 4-6
1Ber TIL Ken Jarecke’s iconic photo of the Gulf War is unknown in America because the AP office in New York censored it. They deemed it was too sensitive and too graphic even for the newspaper editors to see, not even to let them make the decision of what the market they served could see.
vPYn7 TIL how a shipping error 100 years ago launched the $30 billion chicken industry
5VOe8 TIL The oldest named individual tree, christened "Methuselah", was found by Dr Edmund Schulman (USA) and dated in 1957 from core samples as being more than 4,800 years old (4,852 years as of 2020)