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TIL Washington State has a ‘Mutual Combat’ law, where both parties consent to the fight and agree to the rules.

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mxXnE TIL about Joe Delaney, an NFL running back for the Kansas City Chiefs, who died trying to save 3 drowning children in 1983. Just before running in, he told a bystander “I can't swim good, but I've got to save those kids.”
78QKP TIL that Bull Island a 15KM^2 landmass in Dublin bay is an accidental man made island. Which began forming after two large sea walls were built in the 18th/19th century.
XEdYE TIL in 2008, a woman who had been missing for 24 years was discovered to be locked up against her will in her father's basement for all those years. In a prison interview, the father said: "Just look into the cellars of other people, you might find other families and other girls down there."
vlZr TIL The term X-mas doesn’t originate from the deletion or “x-ing” out of Christ like some people believe. The X is taken from the Greek word “Χριστός” or khristós (the anointed one).
0d8jp TIL during the making of "Jurassic Park," the terrifying sounds of the velociraptors were created by recording mating tortoises for their communication barks and using horse and goose sounds for breathing and hissing, respectively.