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TIL Texas has Mutual Combat laws

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rNOOw TIL that Uri Geller bought a small island in Scotland because he believes - among other things - ancient Egyptian treasure is buried there
JYgRV TIL Aztec midwifes advised women to continue having sex until the 7th month of pregnancy, saying that, if women abstained, their children would be sickly and weak
ANmml TIL that the sunlight that shines through the Moon’s mountains and valleys just before and after a total or annual solar eclipse, creating a string of bright, shimmering points of light along its edge is a phenomenon called Baily’s beads or the diamond ring effect.
rNaj1 TIL the CIA has a venture capital fund it uses to identify and fund various technologies with "national security" interest
jyDM TIL when a German chemist tried to recreate a lavish ancient dye called “Tyrian purple,” he had to use 12,000 mollusks to make enough to color a single handkerchief.