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TIL in England and Wales, deaths caused by willingly taking "unreasonable" risks aren't called accidents, they're called "misadventures."

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8lLG TIL Mattel sued the band Aqua because they argued the lyrics of “Barbie Girl” turned Barbie into a sex object “Blonde Bimbo.” The judge who threw out the case wrote “The parties are advised to chill” in his decision
jNGEE Til Horses originated in North America and spread to every Afro Eurasia and South America, only to become extinct in North America where they originated from. They were then reintroduced back to North America by humans. They have been in every continent including Antarctica now.
QoVa TIL that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union could tell fake passports from real ones because of the quality of the staples. Real passports would have poor quality because of the lack of quality metal.
Y789B TIL North American colonial powers paid bounties to people who turned in scalps of killed Native Americans. Colonists’ use of scalping against Native American people likely accelerated the practice.
KOB5w TIL after the first atomic bomb was detonated in New Mexico in 1945, a car full of ranchers happened to witnesses it, with one asking what happened, as it was so bright. She was blind.