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TIL In 2006, a man in Scotland was jailed for two days for “revving his car in a racist manner”.

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5YBnk TIL Scottish Musician Les Harvey of the band Stone the Crows was electrocuted in front of a live audience in 1972 when he touched an un-grounded microphone cable and his guitar at the same time.
R74o4 TIL The Vagabonds Act (1547) stated "if anyone refuses to work, he shall be condemned as a slave to the person who has denounced him as an idler." The owner could then force the new slave to do any work "no matter how vile." If the slave escaped three times, you could execute them.
Wkla9 TIL that we are further away from the movie Apollo 13 (1995) than the movie was from the actual event (1970).
ybVv TIL there is a documentary that has followed the lives of 14 British children since 1964
69yk7 TIL Theodore Roosevelt was shot during a speech and kept talking for 84 minutes. He got shot in the chest, but because he had a thick speech manuscript in his pocket, the bullet was slowed. He refused medical attention, continued his speech, and said, "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose."