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TIL Caitlyn Jenner was a race car driver.

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R5ag7 TIL that between 1760 and 1860, college riots included Harvard's "Great Butter Rebellion" of 1766, which got the entire sophomore class expelled (some, like Ralph Waldo Emerson, were allowed to return). In Yale riots between 1843 and 1858, students stabbed or shot tutors and firefighters.
e0k7E TIL in Texas, the law states two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through verbal or implied communication and have at it. As long as no “serious” injury occurs and both participants know what degree of risk they are hazarding, it's allowed.
aZeZ TIL Tests done since 1933 show that people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.
l6AA TIL the Rhinoceros Party was a registered party in Canada during 1960s to 90s, led by Cornelius, a rhinoceros, and promised to repeal the law of gravity and change Canada’s currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.
K4lQ TIL one of the most viewed Korean programs of all time is called “Finding Dispersed Families”, where loved ones that were separated after the Korean War found each other through television