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8eOdV TIL about Snapdragon, a 16th century holiday game where players try to grab brandy-soaked raisins which were set on fire.
nWoNb TIL: There is a Japanese martial art of combative swimming called Suijutsu. Various styles existed such as the Iwakura Ryū which has techniques for unusual situations such as eating while in water and many schools taught methods of swimming in armor.
Z8m7a TIL a California Congressman once shot and killed a waiter, for being refused breakfast because it was too late in the morning. He was acquitted of manslaughter by a sympathetic jury.
x6rdw TIL that Michael Keaton only had 17 minutes of screen time even though the movie was called "Beetlejuice."
0wrX5 TIL Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson, who personally intervened and stopped the My Lai massacre, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his action. However, after reading the citation, which included a fabricated account of him rescuing a young girl under heavy fire, he threw his medal away.