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TIL Somalia has had a stateless justice system based on natural law since the 7th century

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R5K01 TIL about Roy Sullivan, a park ranger at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. He holds the record for being struck by lightning more times than any other human being. Between 1942 and 1977, he was struck by lightning seven times.
9wDx6 TIL That there was a comic book hero named DareDevil that predates the Marvel hero by almost 25 years. He was originally mute after witnessing his father's murder, and fought villains like Hitler and a wolf with a human brain
neWwo TIL Study Shows We Are Born Creative Geniuses But The ‘Education’ System Dumbs Us Down
XAar TIL that in 1642, a man was executed because a deformed piglet looked like him. He was convicted of bestiality.
wdM8 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once tried to set the mood by doing a striptease and kissing a record executive on the lips. In reality he was so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table followed by dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s wine.