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TIL an ex-wife was ordered to pay 85 weeks of alimony to a man she married while he is on death row.

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pbyZ TIL OF SLAPP suits, frivolous lawsuits designed to suppress free speech by burdening people with legal fees
nWxmG TIL that the Eastern Roman Empire once sent troops to Ethiopia to support Ethiopia's invasion of Yemen
d8G4K TIL the first time Led Zeppelin licensed one of its songs for commercial use was giving the song "Rock And Roll" to Cadillac for a television commercial. The band earned a "ridiculous" fee for this but Cadillac saw sales increase by 16% the following year.
XkvD TIL Denial of the Nanking massacre has become a staple of Japanese nationalism.
XEQB6 TIL the International Sweethearts of Rhythm was an all-female, multiracial band that toured in the Jim Crow South in the 1930s and ’40s, breaking both gender and racial barriers, with white bandmates wearing blackface to avoid charges of race-mixing.