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TIL, the reason you hold your hand up in court when you take the oath is that centuries ago, criminals were branded on the hand. Different letters were used in England, F for Liar, T for Thief, F for Fugitives, R for Rogue, V for Vagabond, and P for Perjury.

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RjP6 TIL of the assassin Balthasar Gérard and his brutal execution, involving having his right hand burned off with a red-hot iron, his flesh torn from his bones with pincers, quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his chest and flung into his face, and finally his head chopped off.
69XZm TIL of Dr. Kathy Sullivan. Sullivan was the first woman to perform a spacewalk in 1984 and the first woman to descend to Challanger Deep, the deepest part of the Ocean, in 2020.
wOJo TIL the real story of The Little Mermaid involves her getting her tail split into two, excruciating pain for every step she took as a human, not even getting to marrying the Prince but instead dissolving into sea foam and her spirit having to earn her soul back one good deed at a time
lm1A TIL In 1957 BBC aired a 3 minute segment about a Swiss family harvesting their “spaghetti tree” as an April Fool’s Day Prank, when hundreds of people called into the BBC to ask them about it they told them to, “place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best”.
KOGQa TIL in Japan you can rent a fake family or family members