› added 4 years ago

95

TIL that for the past two years it is no longer criminal in Canada to challenge somebody to a duel, accept a challenge to a duel or provoke somebody to challenge another person to a duel.

Read more laws-lois.justice.gc.ca

via reddit.com

OG1R TIL the statistic that 90% of guns seized in Mexico originated in the US is a myth. Only 12% are actually traced back to the US.
v61K TIL George Lucas has already written 50 episodes of a live action Star Wars Tv series. Its been on hold untill technology advances enough to make it affordable. But now Disney is thinking about making the series.
nePxd TIL the mens' Olympic Javelin was modified in 1986 to reduce throwing distances. The longest throws were beginning to exceed the length of the field and were a danger to people in the stands. The new javelins only fly 90% as far as the previous design and all pre-1986 records have been nullified.
PYDXe TIL that, before iTunes, before CD's, music was played on something called a "phonograph record," or more simply, "record". Made of a type of plastic, record were flat discs with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. One needed a "phonograph", or "record player" to play the music.
kJx8m TIL for 358 years mathematicians attempted to solve an equation scribbled in the margin of a text book with a note they had a proof but was "too large to fit in the margin". It's still debated today whether Fermat had a solution in 1637 or wrote that just to entice other mathematicians