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TIL Rich Harvard Law Professor sued tiny Chinese Restaurant for $4 and lost both case and his job.

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Brn9y TIL: During the first world war, so many starving wolves had assembled that the opposing Russian and German forces formed a temporary alliance in order to fight them off!
D10aV TIL Fan Bingbing disappeared from the Chinese public due to tax scandal. A sources broke that she had been under "residential surveillance" for the past three months. This isn't quite the same as house arrest. People are not allowed to contact lawyers or family members for help.
0dkny TIL different kinds of tea (black, green, white, oolong) come from the same plant. The only difference is in how the leaves are processed.
XE86E TIL that the pain you feel from chewing on tin foil is called galvanic shock. Aluminum foil and other metals in your mouth have an electrochemical potential difference. Combined with saliva, which produces a wet, salty environment that’s ideal for the transfer of energy, creating a shock of voltage.
YbAW TIL Millennium Challenge was a major war game exercise conducted by the US military in 2002. The combatants were the US, referred to as “Blue”, and an unknown adversary know as “Red”. After Red’s commander defeated Blue Team using asymmetric warfare, the game was reset and rigged so Blue would win.