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TIL - In US criminal cases, a jury can reach a verdict contrary to the evidence and let murders walk free with no consequence.

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eE0g TIL the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand died in 1990. “In my opinion the assassination turned out well, considering who they gave the job to. In any event, it wasn’t our intention to cause a world war.”
N7aaJ TIL There have been eight wars with higher casualties than World War One. And all of them have involved China.
GPWJ TIL that watching people walk was America’s favorite spectator sport in the late 1800’s.
ne9Md TIL a man in 2002 found a way to crack the lottery in the US state of Michigan using math and probability. He figured out that if he bought a certain amount of tickets that he would certainly make a profit. He and his wife Marge ended up making millions of dollars.
YpeAr TIL on 1957, Lawrence Joseph Bader, a salesman from Ohio, disappeared on a fishing trip and was declared dead on 1960. On 1965, probably suffering from amnesia, he was found in Nebraska as a TV announcer named "Fritz" Johnson, and had created another family.