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TIL that in the Old Testament, Yahweh (God) actually sues Israel for breach of contract (the Sinai covenant). It is the only instance of God initiating a lawsuit against humans in the Bible.

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WkLdo TIL when John Connally died in 1993, there was a petition to recover the fragments of the bullet that hit him in Kennedy's assassination, hoping to disprove the single bullet theory. Department of justice replied that it would approve if Connally's family gave permission, which they refused to give.
0dmgR TIL In China, for many village women, marriage is the primary means of changing their lives. Most of them marry up - moving from the mountain areas to the plains, from the villages to towns and cities, and from the poorer classes to the richer.
9wp8m TIL that the character of Samara in "The Ring" and many other ghosts in Japanese popular culture was based on the legend of Banchō Sarayashiki, a young woman drowned in a well for breaking one of her family’s 10 precious delft plates.
np19 TIL North and South Dakota are two different states because they couldn’t agree on where the capital should be.
5KEp TIL that the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada, 45C, is higher than any temperature ever recorded in either Brazil or Thailand.