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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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BrxMr TiL : A Swedish couple won the right to name their children Metallica, Lego, and Elvis in 2008 due to Swedish naming laws preventing embarrassing names for children, a similar case failed in 1996 when a couple tried to name their child Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 (pronounced Albis)
8LRL TIL that Austria acquired 15 fighter jets but can’t afford to run them, nor employ enough pilots.
ADbmd TIL Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African American person elected to the U.S. Senate. He served from February 1870 to March 1871.
RN78 TIL that during his childhood, Fidel Castro sent Franklin Roosevelt a letter expressing his joy at Roosevelt’s re-election and asked that if he could, for the president to send back a ten dollar bill, because he had never seen one.
VBnAG TIL with the exception of three Canadian cities, Elvis Presley never performed outside the United States