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TIL A Pyrrhic victory is one in which the victor incurs such damage on the path to victory that the outcome is no better than defeat.

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R7Vg1 TIL that in 1971, a US man named Gerald Mayo filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Pennsylvania. He was suing Satan, for making him fall down. The judge rejected "Mayo v Satan", pointing out that Mayo did not provide appropriate directions for the US Marshals to serve the summons to Satan.
oRmvo TIL that on December 18,1983 when the NFL’s Baltimore Colts played their final game in Baltimore before relocating to Indianapolis (which they won 20-10 over the Houston Oilers) The visiting QB was Oliver Luck, whose son Andrew was taken number 1 overall by the Colts nearly 30 years later in 2012.
GgYj TIL New York has been hit by 84 hurricanes since the 17th century. 1938 was the strongest.
BrgNb TIL that using a countdown in rocket launches was invented as a dramatic device for a 1920s movie, then later borrowed by NASA for real life launches.
m1lnE TIL that ~30% of Israeli McDonalds don’t serve McFlurrys because they are under kosher supervision, which means that they don’t serve meat and dairy products together