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TIL “outlaw” originally meant “outside the protection of the law” so you could rob or kill them without legal consequences.

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jgZp TIL the US congress has a lower approval rating than cockroaches & colonoscopies, and is even less popular than it was during the American Revolution.
R7WV6 TIL In 1867, a jar was found in a Paris pharmacy with the inscription "Remains found under the stake of Joan of Arc, virgin of Orleans." Carbon14 tests and various spectroscopic analyses were performed, and the results determined that the remains come from an Egyptian mummy from the 6th century BC.
X0gjE TIL that the "Hand of Faith" is one of the largest gold nuggets ever found (at 875 troy ounces/27kg) that still exists. It was discovered in Victoria, Australia and sold to the Golden Nugget Casino chain for over $1 million
lVgG Til that 1,000 pound Texas woman, who was known as “Half Ton Killer” has lost 800 pounds after she falsely confessed to killing her two years old nephew by sitting on top of him.
vklD TIL that 35 out of the 49 GiB of data for the game Titanfall are just uncompressed audio files, because the developers thought that uncompressing it would use up too much CPU resources on low-end systems.