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TIL of 'teen courts,' which are used to prosecute adolescents in which the jury is made up of teenagers in order to lower the number of repeat offenders

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enOE TIL Many people killed in crowd disasters die standing up
OL7g TIL in the last moonwalk of the Apollo 15 mission, in view of a TV camera, astronaut David Scott used a feather and hammer to demonstrate Galileo’s theory that all objects in a given gravity field fall at the same rate, regardless of mass (with no air drag). They both hit the ground at the same time
5YBp TIL that on the date of April 13th, 2029, an astroid (Apophis) the size of Puerto Rico is expected to fly 18,600 miles above earths surface.
J1nX4 TIL Korean women in the 19th century who had sons would openly expose their breasts as a sign of pride
XEnlE TIL actors Robert Webb and Olivia Coleman were tricked into starring in a film naked and un-pixilated. Coleman described filming the movie as the worst experience of her life.