› added 5 years ago

186

TIL that A Kansas man asked an Iowa judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney in a trial by combat in order to settle their ongoing legal dispute.

Read more independent.co.uk

via reddit.com

OaLa TIL: The sex offenders registries are being watered down by people who just needed to go #1 real bad
e07JJ TIL that North and South Korea engaged in a 'flagpole war' during the 1980's to build a tall flagpole. This resulted in North Korea having the tallest flagpole in the world for over a decade at 160 meters high.
946G TIL that LSD cured a holocaust survivor from Auschwitz’s PTSD and allowed him to sleep for the first time in 30 years without nightmares
0wjQy TIL that, in June 2020, a team of researchers in Japan used a drone that shot pollen-dusted soap bubbles to pollinate a pear orchard; 95% of the flowers bore fruit, which was the same success rate as hand-pollinating
yKdp TIL The Hairy Frog breaks it own bones to make claws.