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TIL the United States accepts more legal immigrants than every other nation on Earth combined

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wPJ7 TIL France used to hold impotence trials, where wives could sue their husbands if he had ED. The husband would have to prove that he could get hard in court. If he couldn’t, his appeal would be a Trial by Congress, where the couple would have sex to prove the husband could fulfill his marital duties
Ooole TIL when the HMS Sheffield and HMS Coventry were sunk by the Argentinian military during the Falklands war, the crew sang Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" whilst waiting for rescue- the song's line "worse things happen at sea, you know" being especially ironic.
EgVVd TIL the video game company SEGA gets it’s name from SErvice GAmes of Japan, a company that they bought.
QYne TIL in 2005 Stephen Colbert coined the term “truthiness” with its current meaning: the quality of seeming true but not necessarily being true.
OGlEL TIL that the smallest public statue of London depicts two mice fighting over a piece of cheese. It commemorates the death of two workmen, who fell off the roof arguing about the theft of a cheese sandwich which was later discovered to be eaten by mice.