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TIL Louisiana is the only US state to base its legal system from French law crafted by Napoleon. Louisiana Law students may choose to study either American Law, or Louisiana Civil Code.

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JYD8V TIL of Brian Wells, the pizza delivery driver who alleged to have been taken hostage with a bomb around his neck and instructed to rob a bank
nQe7 TIL that an Australian publisher once had to reprint 7,000 copies of a recipe book because a typo asked for “freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper.
OKx4 TIL “knock on wood” derived from Pagans touching, tapping or knocking on trees believing they were the homes of fairies and dryads who would wake and bless them with luck.
kxO7 TIL Wikipedia is so inundated with new garage band pages that they have a policy and page directing and explaining the removal of them
nelR7 TIL that the Ice Bucket Challenge actually helped fund the the discovery of a gene linked to the cause of ALS. The gene, NEK1, and its variants held clues to understanding and treating the disease.