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TIL It is not known how many US federal laws actually exist and are in force

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LQ0lZ TIL that the first presentation of Tourette syndrome (a neurological disorder characterised by the presence of motor and vocal tics) is thought to be in the 15th-century book Malleus Maleficarum, which describes a priest whose tics were "believed to be related to possession by the devil".
wvXJ TIL that Alexander Fleming predicted the rise antibiotic resistance in his 1945 Nobel Prize speech
d8jX9 TIL that there is a movie called Come and See (1985) and it's a Belarusian anti-war film filmed in the Soviet Union. It's absolutely horrifying and difficult for Americans to watch because the realism.
XEMwr TIL the only instance of a kid dying from poisoned Halloween candy was when it was given to him by his own father. The father took out a $40,000 life insurance policy on his son beforehand. He gave the tainted candy to four other kids to set up the story that a local madman had poisoned the kids.
rNMex TIL James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake is named after a comedic Irish-American ballad called Finnegan's Wake, about a man who breaks his skull and is thought dead, but when whiskey is spilled on his body at his wake, comes back to life and joins the celebration