The ugly facts of life in particular that Atticus reminded Jem of had to do with the immoral actions of people.
All of we readers, as well as Jem, Scout and Dill could tell that the case should have gone in favor of Tom Robinson. Atticus never comes out and blatantly says it but we all know the reason he didn't get off was because the jury was prejudice against Tom's skin color.
Atticus did point out that the jury was out for a long time and that one man took some considerable wearing down if they needed to come up with a unanimous verdict.
A fact of life that this reveals is that our prejudice can lead us to do something that is wrong or immoral, like sentencing an innocent man to life in prison or worse, death. That prejudice was murder. Who now stood trial for Tom's death? No one. That's another ugly fact of life.
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