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TIL that Ontario, Canada’s Apology Act states that saying “sorry” does not legally constitute an admission of guilt or liability.

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GYXZ5 TIL That Rita Hayworth began showing signs of Alzheimer's during her 40s. Even as it worsened, people blamed her behaviour on her heavy drinking. She never got a proper diagnosis until 1979 and upon her death in 1987 at just 68, she would become a major public face for Alzheimer's Awareness.
woNr6 TIL that during the 1974 Academy Awards, a streaker ran nude across the stage. Actor David Niven quipped, “Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?”
jpbN TIL that a woman in the UK was sent to three years in prison for wasting police time after reporting a sexual assault. This is despite the fact that “the police had documented the injuries to the back of her head and breasts, the black eye, the bleeding from her vagina.”
GyMj TIL Someone created a list that cross references biblical verses that contradict each other, plus much more.
KVVE TIL kids computers in the 80’s and 90’s came with BASIC computer program training, because people believed every citizen needed to know computer programming or they would be left out of the computer revolution.