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TIL that under “mutual combat laws,” two people can tussle without legal intervention as long as they both verbally agree to fight before punches are thrown.

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WkNDA TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
E1vMW TIL about Marie Pantalon. A French woman in 1850 that decided to become a Gold Digger. She pretended to be a man to get to California, worked like any man, wielded a gun to defend her claims, and dressed in pants, unthinkable at the time, eventually obtained official permission to wear the pants.
X0EJQ TIL The fog in San Francisco has been named Karl and has its own twitter account
N7MLE TIL that Nintendo had developed a knitting machine add-on for the NES that was never released.
8eQkL TIL that in Japan, there is a hotel run entirely by robots. From check-in to room service, everything is handled by a team of friendly machines