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TIL that a district in India’s Punjab state requires prospective gun owners to plant 10 trees and take pictures with them as proof

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epWn TIL NorCal students are petitioning to add the prefix “Hella” as the highest SI measurement (i.e. The sun weighs 2.2 hellatons)
Baox TIL: Richard Pryor grew up in his grandmother’s brothel, where his mother practiced prostitution.
B6jb TIL Treadmills were invented to punish English criminals!
R5Ll9 TIL Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was inspired to pursue law by "12 Angry Men" & immigrant Juror 11's reverent monologue on the US justice system -- but after becoming a judge, noted the jurors went far beyond the scope of reasonable doubt, which in real life would have led to a mistrial.
D1DWJ TIL that after completing his 20 yr sentence in 2000, John Lennon's killer has been denied parole every 2 years since. Next parole hearing is Aug 2020.