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TIL that a man from Kansas challenged his wife from Iowa to a sword fight over custody dispute, asked the judge for a three-month delay in order to obtain Japanese samurai swords for combat, then was ordered to take a sanity test.

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Xb16 TIL that language can prompt speakers to pay attention to certain features of the world. Russian speakers are faster to distinguish shades of blue than English speakers, for example. And Japanese speakers tend to group objects by material rather than shape…
5ObR TIL R. Rodriguez spent only $7,225 for “El Mariachi”. He raised almost half of it by participating in experimental clinical drug testing
9Y8X TIL that according to a professor of economics at New York University, after receiving $600 billion in foreign aid over 45 years, there’s “basically been zero rise in living standards” in Africa.
GY1pg TIL that Central Park, if sold, would be evaluated at close to $530,000,000,000 while the same amount of land in Detroit would sell for around $4.5 million.
b9GN0 TIL the 1987 film Wall Street is the only film to ever win both an Academy Award and a Golden Raspberry Award.