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nlpY TIL in England you can invoke the Ancient Lights law, which forbids your neighbor from constructing anything that deprives your property of illumination
d6OK TIL that ‘one banana’ is a legitimate measurement unit for radiation exposure
mx4xE TIL that the Hungarian crown has a bent cross on the top because somebody in the 17th century put the crown into an iron chest and closed it without having placed in it properly. The bent cross is used a symbol of Hungary since then.
69Q0l TIL; Arguments before the Supreme Court are limited to 30 minutes for each side, a majority of the time.
QNveL TIL Estelle Peck faced a decision after her Japanese husband was incarcerated, stay with her husband of 13 years and be incarcerated or remain in Los Angeles alone. She chose to be with her husband