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Today I learned about Jury Nullification, a process where a jury in America can find a guilty defendant not guilty if they feel the law is immoral or unjustly applied.

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LYbd TIL there is a spider that builds larger fake spiders and hangs them in its web
a8DDM TIL - There are over 130 Pop songs that use the same 4 chord progression. A 2009 song by the comedy group The Axis of Awesome, called "Four Chords", demonstrated the ubiquity of the progression in popular music
4X48N TIL that a 2015 finders keepers law allows private companies to own anything they find in the outer space and that startups are already rushing to mine asteroids to take advantage of that law
bknE TIL the appendix is used as a safe-house for beneficial bacteria for when you have diarrhea
78Ayx TIL of Kaskaskia, IL, which, as a result of a shift it the Mississippi River's course, is now on the Missouri (West) side of the river and so only accessible from Missouri. 21 people live there today but it was once the capital of IL.