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TIL in U.S. criminal cases, more than 90% of defendants plead guilty rather than go to trial

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QJ6wk TIL Great White Sharks have never been observed mating and it's unknown where, how or when they do it.
l7l9V TIL that the Bin Laden family are major investors in a company with ties to presidents and owns Supreme
x9Vb TIL that Pinball was removed from Windows because it had a rounding error in the 64 bit version of XP. The code was written by an outside company and it had no comments whatsoever, so they decided to scrap it instead of spending time trying to figure out how the code worked.
NX5Ve TIL Why do sailors use knots as a unit of speed rather than miles per hour
xVPlb TIL that in 2007, Ohio proposed issuing specially marked license plates to sex offenders, similar to those already used for DUI offenders.