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TIL New Zealand is the only country that’s allowed to put Hobbit-related images on their currency

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e0k7E TIL in Texas, the law states two individuals who feel the need to fight can agree to mutual combat through verbal or implied communication and have at it. As long as no “serious” injury occurs and both participants know what degree of risk they are hazarding, it's allowed.
x6Vl7 TIL Princess Diana was set to star in sequel to The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner
Ny0M TIL Ernest Hemingway once out drank 14 Chinese army officers. “Slowly officers grew scarlet in the face and slid beneath the table; others went green-white and fell as if shot,”…Hemingway, by contrast, “was planted on his feet like Atlas.”
5V5XR TIL The original lyrics to 'Le Freak' were 'fuck off'. Written after the band was denied entry to Studio 54 New Years eve 1977.
WkxJo TIL that in 1950, scientist Wernher Von Braun envisioned a Martian colony where the head of state goes by the name, "the Elon" on his book Das Marsprojekt.