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TIL that dueling is still technically legal in Texas, because mutual consent is a defense against assault.

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rNYa4 TIL A dead body left on Mars would dry out and mummify better than Egyptian mummies. The first few stages — algor mortis (body cools), livor mortis (blood pools), and rigor mortis (muscles stiffen) — would still take place. But there would be no other overt signs of decomposition.
6EKo8 TIL for 26 years, German feminists Ottilie Assing and African-American Abolitionist Frederick Douglass were believed to be having an affair. I’m August 1884, after learning Douglass remarried to Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris.
AD5Vo TIL the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki almost exploded in flight before being dropped
wjp8 TIL that Nokia has been around since 1865.
PKgE TIL that Hilter’s bloodline is almost extinct as his five remaining relatives have made a verbal pact to never have children.