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TIL Known as Evil Morty theme song (Blonde Redhead - For the Damaged Coda) is based on Chopin's Nocturne Op. 55 No. 1.

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p81M8 TIL flying kicks were invented to knock samurai off of horseback.
dD4Nj TIL that the US judicial system has started to use quantitative risk assessment software when making decisions on bail and sentencing. In a study of one county, only 20% of those predicted to commit further crimes actually went on to do so.
Lk5d TIL Angela Merkel (Chancellor of Germany) has a PhD in Physical Chemistry (Quantum Chemistry)
xVRLg TIL When she married Charles II of England in 1662, Portugal’s Catherine of Braganza brought tea with her and drank it every day out of habit. Until she arrived, people only drank tea as a heath tonic instead of a social activity.
1alN4 TIL "Pull yourself up by your bootstraps" originated as an idiom to describe a ludicrously far-fetched or impossible task