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TIL judges will almost never instruct the jury that they are free to disregard the law; but if the jury disregards the law on its own initiative, then the verdict stands.

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Vpk8 TIL of a Mets/Yankees minor league game where a switch-handed pitcher AND batter faced off, and the two kept on switching hands so much, it was minutes before a pitch was thrown.
a8nJy TIL in 1997 a small Texas community tried to replace "Hello" with "Heaven-o" citing religious reasons
yldX TIL While shooting the blues brothers movie, They had a budget for cocaine.
mxlPp TIL Roman citizens were entitled to free allotments of wine given to them by the state (skip to 20:20)
JYj71 TIL many African-Americans have Irish surnames (e.g. Shaquille O'Neal) because Irish and Blacks lived side by side in the ghettos of 19th century America.