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TIL: Top-billed “Fast & Furious” franchise actors tried to enact contract demands that limit the number of hits their characters took, and refused to definitely lose a fight. Vin Diesel went so far as to devise a tallying system for kicks, punches, and head-butts.

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LXLm TIL, that in December 2011, a US court ruled rape an occupational hazard in the US armed force.
k0be TIL murderers in medieval Ireland were given to the deceased’s family as slaves if they failed to pay a hefty fine to buy their freedom. The family could then legally kill the murderer themselves.
nM4d TIL that “fancy” ketchup is a USDA regulated term that indicates higher concentrations of tomato solids.
Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.
pwPA TIL that the Vatican City is named after the hill that it’s built upon, the name of which pre-dates Christianity