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TIL the former president of a European country alleged he was abducted by aliens

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awX1b TIL In 2016 several California Judges discarded over 66,000 arrest warrants because they felt it was unfair to arrest poor people simply because they could not pay fines.
nWXro TIL: The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite force in 4th century BC, consisting of 150 pairs of male lovers. Each pair had an older erastês and a younger erômenos to represent the god Eros and embrace glorious death together. They train with wrestling and dance and were on the front lines.
5YyO8 TIL the American Service-Members' Protection Act, nicknamed the "Hague Invasion Act" and passed in 2002, instructs the US military to use any means necessary to free US officials imprisoned for war crimes by the International Criminal Court.
ne7Ko TIL Jimmy Carter was the first US president to be born in a hospital.
OGbRe TIL the 1972 song "Garden Party", which has the lyrics, "you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself", is about the singer being booed at Madison Square Garden when he played "Honky Tonk Women" as a country song.