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xR1g TIL Elon Musk was heavily bullied as a child, and once a group of boys threw him down a flight of stairs and beat him until he was unconscious.
D1xyV TIL Douglas Adams came up with the title for The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy while lying drunk in a field near Innsbruck with a copy of The Hitch-Hikers Guide to Europe. Looking up at the stars, he thought it would be a good idea for someone to write a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy as well.
YmyW TIL that the Aztecs fought with a “Macuahuitl” - a wooden sword embedded with prismatic blades made from obsidian, a volcanic glass stone. According to reports from Spanish conquistadors, it was sharp enough to decapitate a man and even a horse.
R7Q0Q TIL: In 2016, a Utah woman sued herself for the wrongful death of her own husband. The woman was driving with her husband when she flipped her car, killing him. Because she was his named heir, the woman sued herself on behalf of her husband's estate and ultimately inherited the money from the suit.
D1Pjp TIL that in 2015 Jake Lloyd, the child actor who played Anakin Skywalker in Episode 1 was arrested for "reckless driving, driving without a license and resisting arrest." He engaged the county sheriff in a 25 mile high speed car chase.