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TIL all English males over the age of 14 are to carry out two hours of longbow practice every week, supervised by the local clergy. This law dates from the Middle Ages, and is still in place today

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Z8JrQ TIL about the Kentucky meat shower of 1876, where pieces of meat appeared to fall on Bath County. One theory is that a flock of vultures vomited in the area; the meat was said to taste like lamb or deer. Another is that the meat was a cyanobacteria which expands to a jelly-like mass when wet.
YpGnd TIL there's an underwater mountain in the middle Lake Superior that rises from the lake bottom (400 feet down) to as high as 21 feet below the surface. Some say Superior Shoal was responsible for the 1975 wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
NXkP TIL a baker’s dozen is 13 instead of 12 because bakers were afraid of accidentally shorting the customer and violating strict laws (wish punishments including losing a hand)
6ZA8 TIL: If you started with $0.01 and doubled your money every day, it would take 27 days to become a millionaire.
wonlW TIL that Africa is home to more than 2,000 languages including more than 500 in Nigeria alone