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TiL Chinese courts convict more than 99.9% of defendants.

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oBEw7 TIL Marlon Brando was paid $3.7 million and an amazing 11.75% backend to play Jor-El, for 13 days work and less than 20 minutes onscreen. In comparison, Christopher Reeves earned $250,000 in the title role, dominating most of the 143-minute running time.
b6DQE TIL that Cotton and Kahn on "King of the Hill" and The Wiz on "Seinfeld" were played by the same actor (Toby Huss)
QJ5WX Today I learned the African Golden Jackal, the animal upon which the ancient Egyptian god Anubis is thought to be based, was reclassified as a wolf in 2015.
415R TIL that MIT students designed an application that will randomly generate a nonsense academic paper; one of these generated papers was actually accepted to the 2005 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.
RNGQ TIL Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, had a lobotomy performed on her at age 23 because she was ‘an embarrassment to the family.’