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TIL Mayhem is an actual crime and means the intentional maiming of another person.

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aRV0 TIL that the word “idiot” originally referred to an Athenian citizen who didn’t participate in their city-state’s democracy and vote
gMD1y TIL since record keeping began in 1915 fifteen people have been killed during the annual Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.
5ykk TIL The Alps are eroding as quickly as they are growing
OoZBX TIL that "it was a dark and stormy night," a catchphrase that has become shorthand for bad writing, comes from the opening line of the 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The phrase was first used in print by Washington Irving in his 1809 "A History of New York."
VMr48 TIL Karl Marx was born into a well-to-do family, the son of a lawyer, he went to the Universities of Bonn and Berlin. He married Jenny von Westphalen, who was part of the Prussian aristocracy and German nobility.