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TIL the folktale "The Smith and the Devil" found in the Grimm Brothers' Compilation of tales was traced back to Proto-Indo-European roots in the Bronze Age (6000 years ago) with "high certainty"

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E1K7w TIL that there was a legal battle between World Wide Fund for Nature and World Wrestling Federation over the use of the acronym WWF.
6dXX TIL on this day, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1798, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous or malicious writing about the U.S. government. President John Adams later signed it into law.
gW49 TIL: If you watch South Park with closed captioning on you can read everything that Kenny Says
R7JA1 TIL that Steven Bradbury, the Australian who won an Olympic gold in speed skating because everyone else fell down, owns a brewery called Last Man Standing
aWP9 TIL that the cast and crew of Borat nearly started a riot during the filming of the rodeo scene where Borat sings the (made up) Kazakhstan national Anthem to the tune of the American national anthem.