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TIL a reverend of the Freedom Church of Revelation asked the Vice Chancellor of Delaware for permission to settle a lawsuit with a "trial by combat to death." The Vice Chancellor rejected this request. This happened in 1983.

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Brkok TIL about The floating turd mystery that still haunts NASA. During Apollo 10 — in which a crewed spacecraft orbited the moon as a dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing — astronauts encountered a deep mystery. One of them had left a "turd floating in the air".
GYB4Q TIL that Saddam Hussein had a copy of the Qur’an written in blood, which is considered blasphemous in Islam. However, destroying it is not allowed under Islam either, so the book still exists and Iraqi authorities still haven’t decided what to do with it
xlZB TIL that in 1972 there was a minor political scandal in Washington State when an assistant to then Governor Dan Evans posed as a college student to follow around his opponent during the campaign and report information back to the Governor. The assistant was Ted Bundy, the serial killer.
mGRP TIL Sir Richard Branson once lost a bet with Air Asia CEO Tony Fernandes on the winner of the 2010 F1 Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi. The loser had to work as a female flight attendant on the winner’s airline.
lk9B TIL that cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, savoy, kohlrabi and others are all technically the same plant. Through history, different cultures bred the plant to express different qualities, creating the varied cultivars we see today.