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TIL someone patented a brass monkey arranged so that, when it got cold enough, its balls would freeze off

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jDOM TIL a woman struck and killed a child on his bicycle with her SUV. She then sued the dead child for emotional distress caused by his “incompetent bicycling.”
OaMg TIL In 1893 an amendment was proposed to rename the US to the United States of Earth.
vPPnD TIL that Antoni Gaudí, one of Spain's greatest ever architects, once got hit by a tram. People who walked by him assumed he was a common beggar and ignored him until it was too late. He died of these injuries
N7QQP TIL that while the United States Supreme Court hear only about 70 cases a year, the Indian Supreme Court hear up to 700 legal matters in a single day.
ANPal TIL a mannequin named Cynthia became incredibly famous in the 1930s, being invited to a Royal wedding, sent jewelery by Cartier and gracing the cover of Life magazine.