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TIL Professional Wrestlers would arbitrate backstage disputes in a wrestler’s court with the Undertaker usually presiding as judge. Sentences often involved the offending wrestler buying alcohol for other wrestlers.

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E0MV TIL in the early 1930s, Stalin killed about 3.3 million Soviet Ukrainians under a plan to kill peasants in order to seize their land. After starving in mass numbers as a result of Stalin’s orders, Stalin blamed Ukrainians and used this as a pretext for even harsher measures.
Bymb TIL that Jerry Lee Lewis courted so much controversy by marrying his 13 year old cousin at the age of 22 that he went from playing $10,000 concert halls to $250 dollar a night dive bars.
x6O6k TIL I learned that in 2012 a man sued Mountain Dew for finding a mouse in a can. They defended themselves by arguing that if it was in the can for 15 months, the mouse would have dissolved. The case was settled.
nem1Y TIL the only carbon negative country in the world is Bhutan. It sinks four million tonnes of CO2 per year.
OoBY7 TIL That the actress in Cheech and Chong's "Up In Smoke" who snorts the AJAX is the one who came up with the band name "Three Dog Night", which is meant to describe how cold a night is, and how many dogs you'd have to sleep with to stay warm