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TIL in Alaska, it's illegal to whisper in another person's ear if they are hunting moose.

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4kDno TIL that a recording of Rudyard Kipling's poem "Boots" is used by the US Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) school to train troops on how to survive if they are captured and tortured
v140D TIL Lisa Leslie once m scored 101 points in only 16 minutes (first half) of a high school basketball game.
ANLGd TIL that in 2013, the British singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner streamed the recording of his album live for 5 weeks. His home studio in East London was set up with 4 cameras, to allow fans to follow every detail of recording the album – with no producer or engineer, only Faulkner and a few guests.
nWVar TIL Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest, even though he had no connection to the mountain and never saw it. He objected to the name because Hindi speakers found it hard to write and pronounce...
QJOYd TIL Richard Scrushy, charged with masterminding $2.7 billion fraud case, came up with a novel strategy: "[play] the religion card" and become a televangelist to curry favor with jurors (the trial was held in Alabama). He was acquitted of all charges.