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TIL The state sport of Maryland is jousting!

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yVn5p TIL of Sister Exchange, a type of marriage agreement where two sets of siblings marry each other. In order to get married, a man needs to persuade his sister to marry the bride's brother. It is practised as a primary method of organising marriages in 3% of the world's societies.
08av TIL the first American spy satellites literally dropped their film from space in a “film bucket” that was then scooped up in midair by a plane
GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home
4pJ6 TIL A Jewish lawyer called Hans Litten put rising politician Adolf Hitler in the witness box and cross-examined him for 3 hours. Litten was later arrested when the Nazis came into power and was brutally tortured for 5 years until he committed suicide.
wekJ TIL there is a registered satirical party in Germany named “The Party”(politically). Their youth organisation is the “Hintner Jugend”. Their goals are to rebuild the Berlin Wall, a CEO quota for lazy people and making the tax system even more complicated (among others).