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TIL that Colonel Sanders once studied Law and served as a Justice of the Peace in Little Rock, but his legal career ended abruptly after he got into a courtroom brawl with a client.

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vPMXL TIL in 1959 the US Post Office Dept used the submarine USS Barbero to test the concept of rocket mail. A cruise missile with its warhead replaced with two mail containers was launched from the sub and successfully recovered at a naval air station in Florida
eK14 TIL judges will almost never instruct the jury that they are free to disregard the law; but if the jury disregards the law on its own initiative, then the verdict stands.
VB6d4 TIL about Erzsébet Báthory, the 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman who tortured and killed hundreds of young girls and bathed in their blood to preserve her beauty.
yQl5V TIL in 2016, Shabani, a male Gorilla at a Japanese zoo received worldwide attention when women started flocking to see him as they thought him to be extremely handsome and manly. The crowds of women yelling his name made him so uncomfortable, zoo staff had to put up signs telling them to stop
mxWdE TIL that tank silencers exist, and they’re bigger than the tank itself. They cost 100000$ to build.