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TIL A baby born on 11.11.11, Skyrims release date, was named Dovakhiin by the parents and they received a lifetime of Bethesda games as a result.

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0yYL TIL in 1975 a county clerk in Colorado issued a same-sex marriage license, finding no law that forbade it. When a man came to her office to marry his horse in protest, she determined the 8-year-old horse was too young to get married without parental consent and refused the license.
A1Xw TIL In 2005, a German court upheld the right of citizens to flirt at work in response to Wal-Mart Germany’s policy banning any sign of attraction b/w its workers. The court said that such regulations may be acceptable in the US, they are incompatible w/ German labor law & employees’ personal rights.
gm0A TIL Richard Belzer as John Munch is the only fictional character, played by a single actor, to appear on ten different television shows including Homicide: Life on the Street, Law & Order: SVU, The X-Files and The Wire.
dDg6j TIL that between 1697 and 1698, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia travelled incognito to Western Europe under the alias "Peter Mikhailov" to gain knowledge of their advances in learning. At 6'8" he was likely the tallest man in Europe, and so his disguise was almost certainly laughably ineffective.
e0kZ5 TIL about Dr. Carlo Urbani who first identified the SARS coronavirus, is credited with triggering the rapid response that helped bring the outbreak to an end, and lost his own life to the virus just one month later.