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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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oRmdo TIL Two of Kurt Cobain's closest friends, Mark Lanegan and Dylan Carlson credit Courtney Love with saving their lives in the years after his death. She felt he would want them to be saved and decided to support them both morally and financially so they can go to rehab and turn their lives around
NGl6 TIL that the world map that we are all familiar with is actually proportionally inaccurate and the real world looks much different. For example Africa is actually so large that it can fit the United States, China, India, Japan, UK, Eastern Europe and 6 other Western European countries combined.
781Wr TIL bootlegger Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton killed himself rather than report to federal prison after being convicted of moonshining offences. He prepared his grave footstone years in advance and had it by his front porch and kept his casket in his living room. The epitaph read, "Popcorn Said Fuck You."
KGM4 TIL 24 writers of the Simpsons went to Harvard
nWBDB TIL Light travels at a constant speed of 1,079,252,848.8 (1.07 billion) km per hour. That works out to 299,792,458 m/s, or about 670,616,629 mph (miles per hour)