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TIL It was Persian custom to debate “affairs of weight” while drunk and sober. The same conclusion had to be reached when drunk and sober to be acted upon.

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ZpKGG TIL of CONOP 8888, also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance: a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command CONOP document that describes a plan for the United States and its military defending against zombies
Z88rB TIL that a Roman soldier once farted, causing a riot that lead to the deaths of ten thousand people.
epmrb TIL in the 1950s General Motors sponsored three Looney Tunes episodes to promote capitalist ideas.
Bg6nL TIL that leap year is skipped on years divisible by 100 unless the year is also divisible by 400.
8ayAV TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald applied for asylum to the Soviet Union in 1959 (was denied), and lived in Minsk for 2 and a half years before returning the the US.