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TIL in 2023 a Canadian judge dismissed a case of criminal harassment against a man and ruled that: "Flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian".

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8akEa TIL A British border agent was fired after he added his wife to the no fly list while she was visiting family, stranding her in Pakistan for 3 years
WAAd TIL that Walt Disney World once had an airport with grooves along the runway that played “When You Wish Upon a Star” when a plane landed on it at 45 mph.
0wxVN TIL that Debbie Gibson, the Pop Singer, was an extra in the movie Ghostbusters (1984). She plays a girl having a birthday party. This was before her career as a musician which began in 1986-1987.
0d46M TIL Alexander Hamilton was the first major American politician publicly involved in a sex scandal. He had an affair with 23-year-old Maria Reynolds, whose husband was aware of the infidelity and likely orchestrated the whole thing to regularly extort blackmail money from Hamilton.
94Op TIL When reporters asked astronaut Alan Shepard what he thought about as he sat atop the Redstone rocket, waiting for liftoff, he replied: “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder”