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TIL that Abraham Lincoln was challenged to, and accepted a duel. It ended abruptly due to Lincoln’s height intimidating his opponent.

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NADE TIL there is a valid legal defense against harassment charges known as the Equal Opportunity Asshole or Equal Opportunity Jerk defense in which the accused proves themselves to be an asshole to everyone without discrimination
YpaNA TIL that in 1552 a man accidentally shot himself in the head with a longbow.
b6XWN TIL Tom Jones turned down a lead role in a movie opposite Joan Collins because his script dropped too many F-bombs
WGnX TIL: In 2006 a woman tried living as a man for 18 months as part of an experiment on “male privilege.” She walked away from the experiment realizing that men are also suffering.
N7rN8 TIL that scientists have discovered a breed of banana which is immune to the fungus threatening the current kind of banana