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TIL it is illegal under German law to deny the holocaust, which is punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

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yx78 TIL that the Masaai people of Kenya donated fourteen cows to the US after 9/11.
J5G8 TIL OJ Simpson’s father was a well known drag queen in the San Francisco area
b9nVN TIL that in 1997, while high on tequila and cocaine, Christian Slater was arrested and sentenced to 3 months in prison after being found guilty of repeatedly punching his girlfriend, biting a man on the chest, and attacking the police officers who came to arrest him.
7GLp TIL in 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
xxZb TIL that Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols auditioned for the band by singing along to an Alex Cooper record. Guitarist Steve Jones later said that “Rotten looked the part with his green hair, but he couldn’t sing. Then again, we couldn’t play, so it was okay.”