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TIL That only two states in the U.S. allow "mutual combat", being Washington and Texas. And that Consent to fight in Texas doesn’t need to be explicitly stated. If someone’s words and actions make it clear that they want to fight, this is considered consent

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Z8Ywa TIL In 1986, 3 volunteers dove into radioactive water to prevent a second explosion at Chernobyl that could have spread fallout across half of Europe. The members of the "suicide squad" were Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov, and, Boris Baranov. Ananenko and Bezpalov are still alive today.
j69Ra TIL a Giant Panda research center in China has been working on a panda linguistics project since 2010. They were able decipher 13 different panda phrases. 'If we can understand their language, it will help us protect the animal, especially in the wild,” Zhang said.
eplEk TIL in 2006 a Texas woman's house was demolished by accident because Google Maps provided the wrong location to the demolition crew. Google Maps resolved two houses' addresses to the same location, and the demolition crew didn't verify the street name was correct.
4R9N TIL that in 1945 a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
GA45G TIL: After Chris Benoit's double murder and suicide in 2007, doctors found that his brain was so severely damaged it resembled the brain of an 85-year-old Alzheimer's patient at only age 40, thus explaining his erratic behavior and mental state