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TIL that Charlie Sheen hasn't been in a movie since 2017

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lopyK TIL that python 3 rounds 16.5 to 16 which is mathematical rounding. This feels quite counterintuitive when you have learned bankers rounding early in school. Bankers rounding is apperently biased towards the bigger number so mathematical rounding makes more sense for greater amounts of data.
N71BP TIL the last blood libel trial (prosecuting a Jew for supposedly slaughtering a Christian child to use their blood in a Jewish ritual) was held in Kiev in 1913. After spending two years in prison awaiting trial, the defendant Mendel Beilis was eventually acquitted.
p8Yyp TIL: 1 in 20 Americans is a Millionaire
YpLmd TIL plague doctors often were not real physicians. They rarely treated patients and instead kept a record of those who were contaminated for demographic purposes. Occasionally they would sell false cures to the sick.
rxnM TIL that Chuck O'Rear, Original Photographer of “Bliss” (The Windows XP Background) Met his Future wife on the same day he took his most famous picture