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TIL that electricity does not take the path of least resistance, but takes all paths available (in inverse proportion to the impedance of the paths)

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BgBaL TIL Eadwig, king of England from 955-959, allegedly left his coronation feast to have a threesome with his future wife and her mother. He was 15 at the time.
N7mbJ TIL Pablo Escobar visited the White House circa 1981 with his family despite the FBI searching for him. It's even said that he also went to Disney Land.
OGKJ6 TIL that Japanese courtesans (oiran) weren’t just sex workers, they were elite artists trained in poetry, music, and tea ceremony, and “considered the height of fashion, and many women imitated their hairstyles and clothing.“
e8Kk TIL that the reason so many traditional legal terms come in pairs (aid and abet, null and void, part and parcel, will and testament) is that old English courts used English terms along with Latin or French terms to avoid confusion.
9YbXX TIL that German expertise was critical for Saddam Hussein's development of chemical weapons. For a decade Germans built facilities, factories, and sold 1,027 ton of precursors for mustard gas and sarin. 52% of Iraqi CW equipment had German origin and equated to 150 ton mustard gas and 60 ton Tabun.