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TIL that Michael Jackson didn't invent the moonwalk, it has been around since at least 1955

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gMNJX TIL that from 1746 until the precedent was overturned in 1996, English law considered bagpipes not a musical instrument, but a weapon of war.
Wkv6o TIL A 2004 American Public Health Association (APHA) resolution called for a moratorium factory farms for growing antibiotic resistance of pathogens, drinking water contamination from waste, severe respiratory problems in workers, and illnesses among people living nearby
XEDOX TIL Maimonides stated that "It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death." Maimonides argued that executing a defendant on anything less than absolute certainty would lead to a slippery slope of decreasing burdens of proof.
PY5VZ TIL about the False Dmitrys. Three different imposters who all pretended to be Dmitry the son of Ivan the Terrible. Each of them fooled the nation into crowning them Tsar but all were ultimately found out and executed.
X0EED TIL a Royal Navy pilot landed his fighter jet on top of some shipping containers on a Spanish ship.. which continued undeterred to its destination, then took £570,000 for "salvaging" the aircraft.