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TIL Johnnie Cochrane, when asked if OJ was guilty, said “I wouldn’t believe him if he told me the sun was coming up again tomorrow morning.”

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d8LlB TIL the UK has been in a war somewhere every year since 1936.
YpJov TIL Michael Keaton pranked Mister Rogers by putting a sex doll in his set closet. Rogers responded humorously to the prank by waltzing the doll around the set.
b6Wap TIL that Richard III, the last Plantagenet who died 500 years ago was actually given a proper funeral in 2013
GQOJ TIL that in 986, Vladimir the Great, audited the major religions before choosing one to unify Russia. Apparently he decided against adopting the Muslim faith because “Drinking is the joy of the Rus’, we can’t go without it”.
MeRwK TIL that Geoffrey de Charny, a French knight, veteran of the Hundred Years War, writer of Book of Chivalry, dedicated parts of his book to preventing psychological trauma from warfare, and cautioned his comrades that “when they would be secure from danger, they will be beset by great terrors”.