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TIL that there was a Banquet of Chestnuts - Where the then Pope had a “banquet” with 50 “Courtesans”, then took the candles and put them on the ground and threw chestnuts on the ground and awarded prizes for best performance in picking up the chestnuts in creative ways.

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5Ym5D TIL Sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison once mailed a publishing house 213 bricks and forced them to pay for it, and then later mailed them a dead gopher with a recipe for braised gopher stew, 4th class mail, over a contract dispute.
XEKA6 TIL that 10 percent of the population in the whole world are left-handed or lefties. Lefties use their brains differently but they encounter struggles like using scissors and computer mouse. But one thing's for sure, lefties are unique and favor to use their left hand
kyRE TIL in 1958, the Chinese captured a US Sidewinder missile just four days after it was introduced into combat when it got stuck in a Chinese jet during a dogfight with Taiwan aircraft. It was reverse-engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll (K-13) missile and used against US planes in Vietnam.
XEkPP TIL about Elinor Otto, born 1919, the "Last Rosie the Riveter", who worked for 50 years building airplanes and was laid off in 2014, at age 93. She's still alive today.
GAVjj TIL that the world's first orbital rocket, the R-7, was also the world's first ICBM(Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).