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TIL Spies Can Listen to Your Conversations by Watching a Light Bulb in the Room

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eJP4 TIL: The Man who Saved More Jews than Schindler: Ho Feng-Shan. He risked his own life and career to save thousands of Jews in WWII as a Chinese diplomat in Vienna.
1n9X TIL that a jury could completely choose to ignore the law or evidence presented to them and hand down their own verdict, regardless if the defendant is obviously guilty or not guilty.
81BK TIL “Shipping is cheap. So cheap that, rather than fillet its own fish, it is cheaper for Scotland to send its cod 10,000 miles over to China to be filleted and returned to Scotland.”
b6ZL9 TIL about the world's rarest bird that was thought to be extinct for nearly 80 years until it was rediscovered in 2013. Only 3 individuals of the species are known to exist in the wild.
Rb96 TIL that women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to pilot airplanes but are not allowed to drive cars.