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TIL Stephen Fry was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud

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X05BQ TIL that 80 French parliamentarians voted against the Constitutional Law of 1940, which established the authoritarian rule of Philippe Pétain. They are known today as Les Quatre-Vingts (the Eighty or Vichy 80).
0wJ1p TIL According to one study, contrary to popular belief, violent video games actually reduce real life violent crime. Researchers think these games may help preoccupy the few gamers with already existing violent tendencies and give them an outlet, so they are less likely to commit real world crimes.
D1JZp TIL that a judge told a convicted serial killer; "You will be strangled to death in front of the parents whose children you killed, Your body will then be cut into 100 pieces and put in acid, the same way you killed the children." The killer died before that happened.
P1VgL TIL that after the 9/11 attacks, a Maasai village in a remote region of Kenya donated 14 cows to US Diplomats as an expression of sympathy.
DmMv TIL: After filming ELF, Will Ferrell gave James Caan the GODFATHER trilogy with a note saying “Great working with you. The first one is a little bit slow, but the second two are really good.”