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TIL in Texas, the law states two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through verbal or implied communication and have at it. As long as no “serious” injury occurs and both participants know what degree of risk they are hazarding, it's allowed.

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p8lbZ TIL “Pop goes the Weasel” is about booze. Pop is English slang for pawning and weasel is for a suit. The Eagle was a London pub. “Up and down the city road, in and out of The Eagle, that’s the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel” means drinking until you need to pawn things to buy more booze.
EeyP TIL there is a town in Australia where the entire town (200+ people) live underground in abandoned mines. Residents here have electricity and plumbing, and have been known to find vast amounts of Opal when renovating.
ne5O9 TIL Out of every US dollar spent on gasoline, 18.4 cents are taxed.
5V7R9 TIL that in 2012 at the Emir of Kuwait International Grand Shooting Grand Prix, the winner was from Kazakhstan, and they played the parody national anthem from Borat by mistake, which mentions the potassium exports and the second-cleanest prostitutes in the area.
nexdr TIL that one air crash, Delta Flight 1141, was caused by the pilots talking about another air crash, Continental Flight 1713. They were so distracted by their own conversation they forgot to lower the flaps. The other air crash they were talking about also involved too much non-relevant discussion