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TIL that the 1986 hit song Kyrie which has the lyrics that everyone misquotes as "Carry a laser" is actually the words kyrie eleison which is Greek for “Lord have mercy”, and the song is basically one big prayer.

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rN1J1 TIL: During the US Civil War, a father issued a writ of habeus corpus to get his underaged Son out of the US Army, when the writ was delivered to the camp, the provost had both the lawyer who had delivered the writ, and the Judge who had issued the writ arrested and imprisoned.
D1k0j TIL of the time Richard Branson flew a fake UFO over London with a fake alien.
rNNDw TIL that the freed Africans Americans who were resettled in Liberia ended up oppressing the native Liberians in the same way that they were mistreated in the USA, including by establishing plantations
Xw58 TIL out of the 92 Navy SEALS that died since 2002, 21 were killed during training (many by parachute accidents)
5VrdQ TIL a deer smashed thru a store called iSmash which is a place where you can smash things.