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TIL Princess Märtha Louise of Norway (daughter of the current King) claims to be a clairvoyant, and is married to a "Neoshaman" accused of extensive scams; he even claimed her previous deceased husband contacted him from beyond the grave

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awXry TIL "women and children first" when evacuating a sinking ship has never been maritime law. It is more common for men to survive shipwrecks than women, and children have the lowest chances of survival. The Titanic is an exception; 75% of women survived compared to only 17% of men.
PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
MeQgW TIL that some deaf people with schizophrenia don’t experience the common symptom of hearing voices, but rather, they see visual hallucinations of disembodied hands or lips making words.
DQ4eY TIL The mathematician William Playfair (noted for inventing the line, area, bar, and pie charts) was also a spy. The Scottish Playfair counterfeited and distributed false assignats which drove down their value and put France into an economic crisis by 1795.
R7P14 TIL in 72, after Led Zeppelin had released 4 platinum albums, a festival mgr. wrote manager Peter Grant requesting a booking of "Led Zeppelin and his backing group." Grant replied by taking out a full page ad in a music industry publication in the form of a letter captioned, "Mr. Zeppelin regrets."