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TIL In criminal law, a "dine and dash" is called "defrauding an innkeeper"

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JYMdj TIL that knowing something "By Heart" actually means to have a complete understanding of something before you commit it to memory, not that you have something completely memorized.
VMA40 TIL that when the United States bought Alaska from Russia, due to a combination of the International Date Line moving and switching to the Gregorian calendar, the days from October 8th through 17th in 1867 never occurred in Alaska.
awYPM TIL of eccentric English aristocrat Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners [1883-1950]. A talented composer, writer and artist, Lord Berners had a clavichord in his Rolls-Royce, paper flowers in his garden, had tea with a horse and would drive around his estate in a pig mask to scare the locals.
KYjja TIL about the Death on the High Seas Act, a United States federal law, which requires a shipowner to compensate a dead crewman’s family for wages he would have earned had he worked a normal life.
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