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TIL: a brutal form of execution in ancient China, the Waist Chop, was outlawed after a victim survived long enough to write the Chinese symbol for “miserable” seven times in his own blood.

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EKQV TIL The band “The Who” were banned for life from all Holiday Inns when Keith Moon started a food fight with a 5-tier cake, once the police arrived he stripped to his underwear, jumped into his car, drove it through a fence and left it in the bottom of the Flint Holiday Inn pool.
wOgP TIL A man foreclosed on a Bank of America branch after his house was wrongly foreclosed. He showed up with moving trucks and the local sheriff and told them to take everything out of the bank.
KO9OG TIL that in 2001 a Hooter's restaurant held a sales contest offering the prize of a new Toyota (which was actually April Fools’ joke). When a waitress won, she was given a new toy “Yoda". She sued the restaurant alleging fraudulent misrepresentation and won enough money to buy a new car.
v1jvD TIL In 1251, Henry III was given a Polar Bear by the King of Norway. It was kept in the Tower of London on a long chain so that it could swim in the Thames
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