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TIL in pre-modern Europe, Outlaw or Outlawry, was one of the harshest punishments available and put the criminal outside of any legal protections, subject to persecution, murder etc. by anybody. It was considered a death sentence but not carried out by the state.

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lnX5 TIL that in 2009, two pilots overshot their flight from San Diego to Minneapolis by 500 miles because they had “engaged in deep conversation”
OoZJR TIL the inventor of the Nerf football is the all-time leading scorer for the Minnesota Vikings
M71j7 TIL Shrimp Hearts Are in Their Heads
Bg7Dd TIL Mao Sugiyama from Japan hosted a public banquet where he served his penis to 5 people who paid $250
8aYn8 TIL of Jack Parsons, an American rocket scientist and occultist follower of Aleister Crowley. He was defrauded of his life savings by his friend L. Ron Hubbard, worked for Howard Hughes, homebrewed his own absinthe, and died in a lab explosion a colleague claims while trying to create a homunculus.