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TIL That the screenplay for the James Bond film "You only live twice" was written by Roald Dahl

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RNR1 TIL that Connecticut teacher Julie Amero faced 40 years in prison after her spyware-infected computer displayed pornographic popups to her class. Her conviction was ultimately thrown out but she was still forced to forfeit her teaching credentials.
jJQN TIL A man sued his wife for being ugly, and won.
m1XAv TIL It is illegal to be drunk in a Pub in the UK.
DQVBP TIL that in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the sound of the snakes was a combination of someone running their fingers through a warm cheese casserole and a skateboard on wet sponges.
P1pbG TIL - Spanish archeologist Eliseo Gil Zubillaga in 2006 anounce the discovery of inscriptions on some pieces from the III-V century, in which you could see figures of daily life, a cross of Christ, mythological characters, hieroglyphics and texts in Latin, Greek and Basque wich resulted to be fake.