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TIL the word "Lord" is derived from an old English word that means bread keeper; as leaders were responsible for providing their community with food back then

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168Br TIL that the average density of the Earth is almost four times greater than the average density of the Sun
GANm7 TIL in 1927 Santa robbed a bank in Texas resulting in 100 people turning up outside the bank to shoot Santa.
m1k7y TIL It was legal in texas to shoot a man in bed with your wife (adultery) until 1973! Justifiable homicide! Texas state law library, this statute was done away with in 1973. Article 1220 of the old texas penal code page is link provided as State Law Library's page won't link here. See 1st comment.
8eGg4 TIL that when USS Taylor was transporting members of the press off USS Missouri after the signing of the Japanese surrender, the ship's mascot, a dog named Subic who had been abused during the Japanese occupation of The Philippines, bit one of the Japanese newsmen in the leg.
woMK1 TIL there is a term for phobia of other people’s opinion of you. It’s called Allodoxaphobia and it can be treated through therapy