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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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xVeV1 TIL Medical errors kill more Americans every year than guns, cars and alcohol combined.
VXEG TIL that Darth Vader’s mask was inspired by an old Swiss Army helmet.
8aOWb TIL of Singapore, Michigan, a ghost town buried beneath the shores of Lake Michigan after complete deforestation removed its protection from the surrounding sand dunes
OGxb4 TIL that a Japanese pilot - Nobuo Fujita bombed the US mainland during WWII (the only foreign pilot to bomb the US Mainland) and was later invited back to where he gave his family's 400-year-old katana to the city in friendship.
NXnlN TIL Between 1973 and 1980, about 1000 cases of bismuth-related neurotoxicity were reported in France, resulting in a ban on bismuth compounds.