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TIL Horatio Nelson had a "friendship ceremony" where he exchanged rings with Emma Hamilton, while they were both married to other people

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BrQkx TIL that the name of the band Cage The Elephant came after an incident where a mentally disturbed man approached them after a show, hugged the lead singer Matt Shultz and kept repeating the sentence 'You have to cage the elephant'.
4Xo5 TIL that during the Bush-era, an estimated 100 detainees died during CIA interrogations, and some were clearly tortured to death.
rR5Vx TIL that despite a highly successful Kickstarter, the revival of Reading Rainbow was prevented by a legal challenge by its original TV station.
a84N9 TIL "The Bladerunner" is a medical crime story that has absolutely nothing to do with the movie Blade Runner. The movie is based on a novel called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The producers just liked the name "Blade Runner" and went with it.
KOBQw TIL one of the longest running civil wars in the world is the Karen Conflict, which has been going on since 1949 between the Burmese/Myanmar government and the Karen minority nationalists in Karen State, Myanmar.