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TIL about Colorado's "Make-my-day law" that expanded on home defense laws to make it harder to prosecute home owners for killing intruders.

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BgRPy TIL that the average BPM in popular dances/music is correlated with the BPM of the average human walking cadence (120 bpm)
4XjRR TIL that the Nazis also had a special Concentration Camp for "difficult" girls between 16 and 21. Many of them were classified as criminals only because they had premarital sex or were lesbians. From 1942 until 1945 more than 1200 girls were kept there and many of them did not survive.
gMaQW TIL about the Ebionite Christianity, a very old old belief (dates back to 180 CE) that Jesus was a human prophet who was born normally and had brothers, it was deemed heretical in Nicaea Council
LQvKZ TIL Hawaii was formed after the dinosaurs had been extinct for 50 million years.
YpynB TIL that Beethoven's teacher (Johann Albrechtsberger) wrote seven Concerti for the Jew Harp (also known as the Mouth Harp).