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TIL due to a case of real world bullying for a Runescape in-game item, the Dutch legal system has since then considered non-physical theft as being a regular form of "theft" and is judged as such by the law

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kwog TIL that DUI checkpoints are illegal in 11 states because they are considered to be a violation of the 4th Amendment due to drivers being stopped without reason
E18wX TIL in 1883 Sitting Bull made a speech in Sioux, not English, to US officials, generals, and railroad barons that began: "I hate all the White people, you are thieves and liars," and got worse from there. He would stop periodically to smile and bow, and the audience applauded enthusiastically.
OoGGa TIL that the term "spam" is derived from a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch
BE7L TIL When Brahms was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1881, he strung together 4 popular student drinking songs into a symphony as a sarcastic thank you and premiered the song as the conductor at a special convocation.
oBWR7 TIL selfies distort the face and can make the nose appear 30% larger than the rest of the face, and is linked to a rise in patients seeking nose jobs because they say their noses looked too big in their selfies