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TIL criminal conversation is an old civil wrong for suing a person who had sexual intercourse with your spouse. Although abolished across the British Isles and 30+ U.S. states, it is still active in a few like North Carolina.

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0wkmv TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman was once starstruck when he found jazz legend Miles Davis swimming in the pool where he was a lifeguard. Hoffman played it cool and pretended he didn't know who the mysterious man was and his indifference earned him an afternoon chat about everything except music.
1aGyV TIL that early phonographs didn't have volume control. People stuffed socks and towels into them to quiet them--which is where we get the phrase "put a sock in it"
ep4X5 TIL that Australians sell a product called "sonic animal guards" (colloquially known as "kangaroo scarers").
yQ1QV TIL every Australian state has only one large city and the majority of every state lives in those cities.
bM6j TIL that there are more museums in the U.S. than Starbucks and McDonalds combined.