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TIL that rapper Tech N9ne picks up bras that women throw on stage when he performs and donated them to domestic violent shelters.

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J1wrm TIL about Giles Corey, who was accused of witchcraft during the Salem trials. He used a legal loophole and refused to plea, which meant he couldn't be tried. He was then tortured to death, but still refused to plea, allowing his children to claim their inheritance.
0dayN TIL Paul Revere was a master silversmith
Wk8W8 TIL: The north american division of the Dutch Rabobank paid $360M in fines and pleads guilty to laundering money for mexican cartels.
l7bla TIL Grand Duchess Elizabeth was the Aunt and Sister-in-Law of Tsar Nicholas II. After her husband's assassination in 1905, she joined a convent and devoted her life to the poor, even selling off her own wedding ring. Despite this, she would be murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
8avLG TIL Monty Python's Life of Brian was banned in Norway and subsequently marketed in Sweden as "The film so funny that it was banned in Norway"