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TIL Triscuits are salted on one side only

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ygel TIL that a North Korean general was executed with an anti-aircraft gun in front of hundreds of people, reportedly for behaviour such as falling asleep in Kim Jong-un’s presence.
1Y9X TIL when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was studying at Harvard, the Dean of Harvard Law asked her “How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?” Ruth transferred to Columbia Law School and became the first woman to be on two major law reviews, later becoming an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
9YEEp TIL due to a case of real world bullying for a Runescape in-game item, the Dutch legal system has since then considered non-physical theft as being a regular form of "theft" and is judged as such by the law
ANrv7 TIL that in the 1960s, a major conflict broke out between Brazil and France that essentially argued about whether lobsters walked or swam. At its peak, both countries sent out warships to protect their fishing zones.
KYJPG TIL Lord of the Rings: Return of the King won every Academy Award it was nominated for. With 11 wins, it made history as the highest clean sweep in Oscars history.