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TIL Ralphie from A Christmas Story was an executive producer for Iron Man

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R5BQ9 TIL that there are two kinds of freedom. A person alone in a desert has the perfect negative freedom to choose where to die. A person on a highway has the positive freedom to drive wherever they want, in large part because they don't have the negative freedom to drive on the wrong side of the road.
J11dB TIL Vikings served as the personal bodyguard of the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire. They were known as the Varangians - Men of Oath
8e1JG TIL that the longest supported Windows version was Windows 1.0. It was released on November 20, 1985 and support ended 16 years later on December 31, 2001.
yVg9l TIL In the oldest surviving law code, some of the laws include: "If a man knocks out the eye of another man, he shall weigh out half a mina of silver." and "If a man has cut off another man's foot, he is to pay ten shekels."
Y7Gwv TIL: Though uncommon, some peoples used entire bird carcasses, with wicks pulled through from anus to mouth, as candles.