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TIL that US Law does not protect speech that is “likely to provoke the average person to retaliation”

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MedZ7 TIL about the plunge for distance, a short-lived olympic swim event where competitors jumped from the edge of the pool and floated motionless as far as possible. It was criticized as "not an athletic event at all" since competitors "merely throw themselves heavily into the water and float along".
wo5o TIL Discovery’s ‘How It’s Made’ visually described ~1000 items’ manufacturing process.
e8kE TIL the largest battle during the American War of Independence happened at Gibraltar. Despite having less than a third of the soldiers Spain had, it was a decisive British victory. They had 333 people killed in comparison to Spain’s 6000+
ADOg TIL that a CD of monks singing Gregorian chant made it to #3 on the Billboard 200
yAkX TIL former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a sexual maniac who nicknamed his penis “Jumbo” and he would often urinate in public. If anyone confronted him while doing so, he would turn around and say “have you ever seen anything as big as this?”