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TIL Stephen Fry spent time in prison for credit card fraud

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6951w TIL of Triboulet: a Royal jester for King Francis of France who was sentenced to death for mocking the King and Queen. King Francis allowed him to choose his method of death, to which Triboulet responded “… I ask to die from old age.” He was spared and instead banished.
QJaPM TIL Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping studied abroad in Paris at age 16 as well as in Moscow later on. He worked in a Renault plant, factories, and developed two lasting passions in France -- one was for croissants; the other was for communism
RaP4 TIL Americans throw away “enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet every three months
7rppX TIL that Hitler had a nephew, William Hitler, who served in the US Navy and wrote an article in a magazine titled 'Why I Hate My Uncle'.
JYlYj TIL that House and Techno music were invented by gay black American dudes in the 80s