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TiL Chinese courts convict more than 99.9% of defendants.

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oBj5Y TIL helicopter rotor blades spin at a fairly constant speed and only gain lift by altering the angle of the blades. The centrifugal force is too much to attempt to alter the blade RPM enough to generate lift.
X0AMQ TIL that Greece has the largest merchant navy in the world, beating even the US, UK, Japan, etc.
8aoo4 TIL that during the Prussian siege of Paris, supplies and food were so dire that after slaughtering all the farm animals and pets, eventually the animals in the zoo were killed. There's even a copy of a restaurant menu from the time that included dishes like elephant consommé and roast camel.
rrL1 TIL of John Laufer, the man who stopped Mall Spree Killer Sylvia Seegrist. He did not know that she was shooting real bullets and simply walked up to her and grabbed the gun from her as it was annoying. He thought it was a fake gun it was a Halloween prank.
e0XoJ TIL a babirusa's tusks grow upwards through the skin, curve back, and can get so long they penetrate the babirusa's own skull, killing it.