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TIL that a woman sued Walmart over 2 cents and won

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wLWnP TIL Jack Nicholson was charged with assault and vandalism after bashing in a car roof/windshield during a road rage incident. Charges were dropped after he wrote a check for 500K. Two years later he was sued for breaking a woman's breast implant, and another for assault on a woman he bribed for sex.
gpnL TIL That Wild Bill Hickok once escaped being shot by waving his hand at onlookers behind a mounted gunman and yelling, “Don’t shoot him in the back; he is drunk.” The gunman wheeled his horse around, and before he realized he had been fooled, Hickok shot him through the temple.
YpmZr TIL Sigmund Freud wrote that there are only seven jokes or wit that have ever been written: Absurdity, allusion, comparison, exaggeration, faulty thinking, word-play and reproach
nkAW TIL that “Paris Syndome” is a psychological disorder whereby Japanese tourists visiting Paris for the first time experience such severe culture shock that they become ill.
ZJ5Y TIL that animals’ “languages” have regional dialects.