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TIL there is a project called “A Call in the Night” that will call you once a week after 2am and connect you to a random person to discuss your dreams.

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xZQB TIL That “The Right of the First Night”, where a feudal lord had the right to be the first to bed the local wives, has no definitive evidence and might be a fabrication.
78Amr TIL that in the common law of crime in England, a Common Scold was a troublesome and angry person who broke the public peace by habitually chastising, arguing and quarreling with their neighbors.
E189P TIL that hockey goalie Clint Malarchuks throat got slashed by skate during a live NHL game, the injury was so bad that 11 fans fainted, 2 got heart attack and at least 3 players vomited on the ice. The wound was so bad that it needed 300 stiches. Clint was back on ice just a week later.
GYxL5 TIL Alec Baldwin, Marilyn Monroe, Clint Eastwood, Sally Field, Richard Gere, Katherine Hepburn, and Ashley Judd are all descendants of original Mayflower settlers.
OvBY TIL Lightning serves an important role in the nitrogen cycle by oxidizing diatomic nitrogen in the air into nitrates which are deposited by rain and can fertilize the growth of plants and other organisms.