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TIL: Organizations such as the Boy Scouts can purchase special sexual molestation insurance policies since molestation lawsuits are not covered by organizational liability insurance

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8eEXZ TIL Hongmen Feast Incident. After the Qin Dynasty's fall, rebel leader Xiang Yu held a feast for his co-rebel & rival, Liu Bang. In the party, Xiang arranged for a sword dancer to kill Liu during his performance, but Liu was saved by one of his friends, who got up and danced with the sword-dancer.
QJ4mk TIL the phrase 'pulling out all the stops', meaning to use all the resources or force at one's disposal, comes from organ-playing, where it means to literally pull out every knob to play all the pipes at once, thereby creating the fullest possible sound.
JYbWk TIL a freshwater lake in Canada is one of only a few lakes in the world to contain living coral reef like structures believed to resemble early life on earth or life on other planets.
DQO1V TIL that Natalie Portman has had papers published in two scientific journals. While at Harvard, she co-authored a study called “Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.”
EgKj7 Today I learned violin strings are made from sheep intestines then wrapped in metal