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TIL That Frank Sinatra regularly tipped waiters, busboys and chefs $100-200 each. However, he had a fearsome temper in restaurants. He would throw food against the wall if he didn’t like how it was prepared, and would throw drinks if he didn’t like how he was treated.

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7rlwb TIL there was a practice called Posthumous Execution where a dead body was mutilated as punishment. It was performed to show that even in death, one cannot escape justice. Eg. Vlad the Impaler was beheaded following his assassination, Rasputin was exhumed from the ground and burned with gasoline.
EglGW TIL the 'personal injury lawsuit' evolved from a rare sight to a common occurrence during the Second Industrial Revolution at the end of the 19th century. In 1870, tort lawsuits made up only 4.2% of the contested caseload of New York City trial courts, but by 1910, that number had increased to 40.9%
wdg8 TIL the GPS is owned by the United States and was originally developed for military usage but made freely-available in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan after Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down
lEra TIL that in China, more than 30 million people live in caves. Also that in the stone age there were only 5 million people on the earth, meaning that there are more cavemen now than there have ever been.
6EK6J TIL that in Papua New Guinea, sorcery is legally defined: "Good magic", used for things like healing and fertility, is legal; while "Black magic", held responsible for unexplained deaths, is illegal