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TIL Baby carrots are shaped from irregulars and their invention reduced loss by as much as 70% in some crops

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0wOp5 TIL - After Joseph Stalin's Death, his successor embarked on a program of 'De-Stalinization' - systematically reversing most of Stalin's policies while in office, to end the "era of the cult of personality"
V8JD TIL that after the Greek War of Independence began, the Ottoman reaction was so virulent that the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church was publicly hanged in Constantinople, and a imam from the city of Smyrna was executed after he refused to issue a fatwa justifying the murder of Christians.
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9YbOQ TIL US you do not actually have the right to a trial by jury unless the sentence is greater than 6 months