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TIL it's not just on the books, juries have actually let murderers walk free when they felt it was justified, ex: Talaat Pasha's assasination

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a8vny Today I Learned of the Lost Battalion in WW1, an American unit who was surrounded for 6 days after pushing too far forward into German lines, subject to friendly artillery fire and their only contact was via carrier pigeon
R7o18 TIL that Dr. Seuss was childless, but invented a whole clan of fictional offspring with bizarre talents that he could bring up whenever friends annoyed him by boasting about their own kids' accomplishments. He even got a group of neighborhood kids into posing as them for a fake Christmas card photo
QJv9d DIY Face Masks Are Basically Useless Against the Coronavirus
XEpLj TIL of Jérôme of Sandy Cove, a mysterious deaf-mute man who was found on a beach in 1863 with both legs amputated above the knee. He never spoke a word for the rest of his life and died in 1912. His origins are still unknown.
9Y5ZD TIL that NASA investigates giraffe blood system to improve suit for astronauts.