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TIL lawyer Russel T. Tansie filed a suit against God and won because God "failed to turn up in court"

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gMW9D Why aren’t stop signs yellow, purple or green? Brainstuff explains the origins of the red, octagonal stop sign and some hints about why red might be the best...
MeJxK TIL the Sony Walkman got its name from a combination of Superman and their own existing Pressman cassette recorder line
vBbj TIL there is a book written by an Italian artist that describes an unknown world, and uses an alphabet and language that has never been deciphered.
d8MZB TIL that over 500,000 people were evacuated from Manhattan by boat on 9/11 in just 9 hours, surpassing the 330K rescued at Dunkirk during WWII, making it the largest marine evacuation in history
6Oa7 TIL of Lafayette, a Frenchman from the revolutionary war who later toasted “to the perpetual union of the united states. it has always served us in times of storm. one day it will save the world”. American troops sent to France in world war 1 visited the grave and said “Lafayette, we are here”