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TIL in Louisiana and Oregon, a jury can convict a murder suspect with just a 10-2 vote. In Louisiana, this law came from Jim Crow. In Oregon, it's from anti-Semitism in the 30s.

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0b8N TIL that 3 Musketeers bars original came three in a pack. One vanilla, one strawberry and one chocolate. Hence the name 3 Musketeers.
WEbA TIL that Louis Pasteur wasn’t the first to invent pasteurization. It was a Hungarian man named Preysz Moric who discovered it 3 years before Louis Pasteur, but nobody paid any attention him, because he published his research papers in Hungarian - a then undecipherable language.
9DwG TIL Cheddar cheese that has been ripened for six months is considered “mild.” Seven months to a year of ripening makes “sharp” cheddar, and two years worth of aging yields an “extra sharp” product.
oRx5R TIL that Rocky Marciano’s opponent Roland La Starza, had to get surgery for bones, muscles and nerves, just on his arms, after Marciano was done with him.
jNAdN TIL there are no recorded fatal attacks of wild Orcas on humans. In 2005 a 12 yr old boy in AK was bumped by a killer whale while splashing in 4 ft of water. The boy was likely mistaken for a seal and the bump was an aborted attack once the whale realized the mistake