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TIL that pursuant to Section 189 of the German Criminal Code, defaming the dead can lead to a prison sentence of up to two years.

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gey7 TIL there is no “Nobel Prize” for Economics - it is a separate prize created 67 years later, which Alfred Nobel’s descendants have called “a PR coup by economists to enhance the prestige of free market ideology and establish it as a science.”
j61rQ TIL in a Florida courtroom an exotic dancer on trial for violating an anti-nudity ordinance wore her outfit and bent over for the judge to determine if he could see anything indecent; she was found not guilty, but a courtroom photo was published in Playboy
x6bMD TIL that there is a Lombardy Crown called the 'Iron Crown' with what is supposed to be a nail of the True Cross as a central circlet.
P1a7J TIL the first ally soldier to step onto the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day invasion was Leonard Treherne "Max" Schroeder Jr. He made it out alive and was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart. He died in 2009 at the age of 90.
J1XGB TIL that Queen Elizabeth had the nickname of Gary thanks to Prince William mispronouncing Granny.