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TIL The 'Magna Carta' (1215) was the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government are not above the law.

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R4N8 TIL that in February 1991, 28 American soldiers died when a Patriot missile didn’t compute two floating point numbers correctly making it miss its intended target (a Scud missile) by 600 meters or 0.372822 miles
jAlE TIL that Aubrey Plaza (April from Parks and Recreation) had a stroke when she was 20 years old.
e8ng TIL Andreas Krieger, an East German athlete was unknowingly given so many steroids by officials for years that she had to eventually become a trans man.
VBERD TIL One serving of Kiwi has more potassium than a banana, more vitamin C than an orange, and more vitamin E & K than an avocado. (Page 4)
yY5v TIL psychologists have no idea how to rehabilitate sex offenders. There is no scientific evidence that therapy prevents sex criminals from striking again, according to a study in the British Medical Journal.