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TIL that judges deliver significantly harsher verdicts when they’re hungry

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MePLm TIL The Talmud rules that an unanimous verdict by the Sanhedrin (Jewish court) must be thrown out and the defendant must be exonerated! The alleged guilt of the defendant is immaterial and the defendant walks away a free man.
b9Y1j TIL Dragonflies are capable of higher-level thought processes when hunting its prey. The discovery is the first evidence that an invertebrate animal has brain cells for selective attention, which has so far has only been demonstrated in primates. It selects one target and filters out all others
J1rpQ TIL that just outside of St. Louis, MO, around 1100AD, was a city of 20,000 people, larger than London at the time, and the largest pre-Columbian site north of Mexico.
loa9r TIL more than 50% of Earth is unmapped
400o TIL Shania Twain divorced her husband after he cheated with her best friend. Later Twain married the ex-husband of that same best friend.