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TIL Jim Belushi and Julie Newmar had a publicized feud and legal battle where she accused him of building an illegal 2nd home on his property, and he sued her $4M for defamation. The conflict ended amicably when he invited her onto According to Jim in an episode satirizing their feud.

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RxQ TIL “TASER” is an acronym for “Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle”.
6ExLZ TIL Japanese women are required by the Maternal Child Health Act to register their pregnancies with the local government, and encouraged to be vigilant by utilizing the Maternal and Child Health Handbook distributed upon registration. Over 90% of pregnancies are registered by the 20th week.
wokQJ TIL of Adrian Carton de Wiart who survived being shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear, lost his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and tore off his own fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them.
nWNAd TIL there are wallabies in Hawaii
P1AXw TIL that sidereal time is different from solar time, so in a typical "year" (ignoring leap year complications) where sun rises 365 times, the Earth has actually done 366 rotations around its axis