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kO4J4 TIL of the Oh-My-God particle, recorded in 1991 over Utah traveling 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light -The tiny particle had the kinetic energy of a 58 mph baseball (or 100 quintillion times the photon energy of visible light)
p8X5b TIL the largest murder case conducted in human history was first-chaired by a rookie who'd never been in court before - and he won. His name is Benjamin Ferencz and he is still going strong at 101 years old.
6PwZ TIL 10^−360,783 is the probability that a monkey could write Hamlet in one go, including capitals and punctuation.
N7rob TIL that the color of the Golden Gate bridge is called International Orange, and is the same color as U.S. astronauts' spacesuits.
mdnv TIL that a 2009 OIG audit found that there is a 35% error rate in the terrorist watch list. There are now estimated to be more than 700,000 names on that list.