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TIL: You can be massively sued for (supposedly) disparaging a generic vegetable or piece of meat and the burden of proof is sometimes on you, not the party suing you.

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JlJk TIL that two warring nations in Africa temporarily stopped fighting because Pele was playing nearby and both sides wanted to go see him
NlvE TIL If you see a mushroom cloud from an atomic bomb, you’re supposed to stick your arm out and hold your thumb over the cloud. If the cloud is bigger than your thumb you are in the radiation zone and should evacuate.
v1lgr TIL The approximate Korean word for friend "Chingu" is only used with people of the same age. You can be friendly with older people or younger people, but you will never be friends with people who aren't the same age
9jOm TIL when Edwin Edwards ran for governor against the grand wizard of the KKK, David Duke, people were worried that Edwards would lose because of his indictments for fraud and bribery. Faced with the alternative, people created bumper stickers that read, “Vote for the crook, it’s important.”
yQO4J TIL after India, the state of Texas now has the world's second-largest tiger population