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TIL Robert Richards of the DuPont family abused his 3 year old daughter and after being sentenced to 8 years in prison, he was released immediately as the judge claimed that the "defendant will not fare well" in prison

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XE0Gk TIL When Russian President Boris Yeltsin was on a yacht in Siberia and ordered an aide thrown overboard, out of fury. [pg.468]
n8DG TIL when the bees in a region of China disappeared, people pollinated apple trees by hand using brushes made of chopsticks and chicken feathers. When humans pollinated, apple production increased 30-40%.
xVWPg TIL the South Korean authorities have already created designations for North Korean highways to bring them under their own system in case of reunification.
x6y80 TIL that Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, even though he had no connection to the mountain. He objected to the naming because the word 'Everest' could not be easily written in Hindi or pronounced by the local people.
QJK7d TIL in the U.S. (unlike other countries), the placebo effect is so strong that new painkillers have trouble beating it in clinical trials.