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TIL that Grand Juries are used in only two countries - USA and Liberia

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5oL9 TIL of the White Feathers Movement, in which feminists and suffragettes shamed men who refused to fight in World War 1
rRwwd TIL that in the 1700s, Queen Caroline of Great Britain had smallpox innoculation trialled on six prisoners in return for commuting their death sentences. When this was successful, she innoculated her own children, popularising the process.
E16QW TIL in 2010, a Polish man living in Germany asked doctors to remove what he thought was a several-year old cyst at the back of his head. However, doctors found that the 'cyst' was actually a .22-caliber round lodged in his scalp. He didn’t noticed it because he was drunk when it happened 5 years ago
m1laM TIL: Nirvana's producer offered to work on "In Utero" for free if any of the band beat him in a game of pool
ANP4x Today I learned that the children of identical twins are basically half siblings as opposed to first cousins on a DNA level.