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TIL Men traditionally walk with a woman on his left arm so that his sword arm would be free in case of a duel.

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W71w4 TIL that 200 students received "graduataion" diplomas in 2012. Spring Creek High School in Nevada received the misspelled documents from Jostens, which quickly sent corrected diplomas by mail to the students.
kOn81 TIL that during the 18th century rich people used to pay people to be "hermits" in their gardens
7rrDZ TIL of a historical marker on Galveston Island marking the site of the Battle of Three Trees in 1819: the pirate Jean Lafitte and 200 men battled with 300 Karankawa Indian warriors after the pirates kidnapped a Karankawa woman. The Karankawa retreated but the fate of the woman isn’t known.
7A1P TIL that a whistleblower named Gustl Mollath was forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital for claiming that a major bank was engaging in money laundering. A report by the bank itself later leaked, proved that Mollath was right and allowed him to be released.
r0B0 TIL that in 1975, North Korean embassy staff in Australia crashed their Mercedes, and when they went to the nearest house for help they were aghast to find that that they had knocked on the door of the South Korean ambassador’s residence.