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TIL A Man once took his wife to court for being ugly and won $120,000

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xVrow TIL: The white man in this famous photo, Peter Norman is wearing the badge of Olympic Project for Human Rights, protesting racial injustice. He was later ostracized by the Olympic committee and his home country Australia to the point where he couldn't even get a job.
yVK4V TIL in 1964, ABC premiered "A Carol for Another Christmas," a made-for-TV movie written by Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling as a modernization of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." The film is both a retelling of the classic tale and a call for cooperation between nations.
5YOgD TIL common baking soda will dry Super Glue (Cyanoacrylate) almost instantly and harden it so much that it can be used to repair chips in helicopter blades.
9Ypb7 TIL of Colma, California, a city for the dead. 1500 aboveground residents and 1.5 million underground. Colma’s official motto is, “It’s Great to Be Alive in Colma.”
LQQxd TIL about snake handling in Christianity. Members of some Christian sects in the Southern United States are regularly bitten by venomous snakes while participating in "snake handling" rituals. This ritual is inspired by a literal interpretation of the Bible verses Mark 16:17–18.