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TIL: Woden was an Anglo-Saxon god from which our day of the week Wednesday is named after. Woden had a career in curing horses and carrying off the dead, and Wednesday is his day (Woden’s day). Various spellings—wodnesdaeg, Weodnesdei, Wenysday, wonysday, Weddinsday have been used
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TIL A convicted killer had his death sentence thrown out when it couldn’t be proven that he had assaulted a girl he had murdered. Believing he was now immune, he sent a taunting letter to the prosecutor, admitting the assault. It was used to successfully re-convict him to death.
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TIL WW2 Black Sheep Squadron member Bill Case cheated death by randomly lowering the seat in his cockpit. In battle, a bullet from a Japanese Zero hit his cockpit and bloodied his scalp. If he had been sitting an inch higher, he would be dead. He went on to live another 52 years.
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TIL that there really is a three-star solar system 4 lightyears away from us, exactly as described in the Three Body Problem.
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TIL: Ronald Reagan signed an Execituve Order prohibiting assassinations.