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TIL that the Mona Lisa became famous because of a heist by an employee at the Louvre

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w9wM TIL The Sun, a British tabloid that published cruel lies about the Liverpool fans in its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans died, is still banned from many Liverpool newsagencies, is not allowed at Liverpool matches and has very low sales in Liverpool to this day.
nxeo TIL that in Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation
OokY TIL In 1899, President McKinley was assured by the director of the US Patent Office that everything that can be invented has already been invented.
L8Bv TIL in 1991 after Pee-Wee Herman was arrested in Florida for masturbating in an adult theater, Bill Cosby defended Herman saying, “Whatever he’s done, this is being blown all out of proportion”.
p84ne TIL as a play on the copyright infringement common in the former Soviet Union, the packaging of Borat's DVD mimics a foreign bootleg DVD. The slipcover is in English but with an all-Cyrillic text and is made to look poorly photocopied. The disc is a parody on Memorex in the form of Demorez DVD-R.