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TIL Only 10% of Tourette’s sufferers spontaneously utter swear words.

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xO5D TIL intelligence and physical attractiveness are as highly correlated as intelligence and education
x6EDg TIL of the Combat of the Thirty, during the Breton War of Succession, in which warring knights of France and England agreed to an arranged fight with 30 knights each. Highlights include a negotiated rest break, and a French squire single-handedly beating seven English champions to turn the tide.
VNdG TIL that Moe from The Simpsons, was only given the surname Szyslak so that he would have the initials M.S., and hence be a suspect in the Burns shooting.
YYxP TIL the Great Famine of Ireland caused so many deaths, that Ireland’s population still has not recovered (after 150 years)
grWmW TIL of the Price–Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act (1957) that put a limit on compensations following a large scale non-military nuclear-catastrophe. It was ratified to lower the risk for private development and use of nuclear technology.