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TIL Temple Lea Houston, the son of Sam Houston, was a lawyer and former gunslinger whose improvised defense of a sex worker is still cited by lawyers as the “perfect closing argument.”

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TIL Temple Lea Houston, the son of Sam Houston, was a lawyer and former gunslinger whose improvised defense of a sex worker is still cited by lawyers as the “perfect closing argument.”

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TIL that Edward VIII, who became king in 1936, broke a centuries-old British coin tradition – where each monarch’s portrait faced the opposite way to their predecessor – by insisting he face left like his father so his hair parting looked best; only a handful of coins were struck.

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TIL that “algorithm” comes from the mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, also pronounced Algorismi. He lived in Chorasmia (central asia) in the 10th century. He developed the mathematical principles that algorithms function after today.

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TIL in 1986, a Yakuza member attempted to smuggle a hand grenade on a flight from Manila to Osaka. Whilst in the toilet, the pin on the grenade came out and the man panicked, leaving it behind. The explosion and resulting decompression injured 109 passengers, including the gangster

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