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TIL that a good old-fashioned fistfight between consenting parties is legal in the state of Washington.

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kO4WE TIL of Kevin Peter Hall, the actor who played the Predator (1987), who was in a near fatal car accident in 1990. While receiving a blood transfusion at the hospital, he contracted AIDS and died less than a year later.
JY6Aj TIL Big Ben is actually the name of the bell, not the tower itself, which is now called Elizabeth Tower.
9Yb0B TIL about Margarethe Cammermeyer, the highest ranking officer in the military to be discharged for homosexuality. She won a lawsuit and was subsequently one of the only openly gay people to serve during "don't ask, don't tell."
nM1W TIL that Germany during WW2 dropped on Britain propaganda leaflets showing Churchill carrying a machine gun, calling him a “gangster” who encouraged murder. The leaflets stopped when the Nazis realized that they made the prime minister more popular in the UK.
D1j1Y TIL the Star Trek theme tune is not just an instrumental but has lyrics (which were never intended to be recorded) in order to give the writer more money in royalties