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TIL A creepy story from Charlie Chaplin's autobiography, about meeting a legless man who slept under a cabinet and performed parlor tricks on command, inspired "Home" -- widely considered the most disturbing episode of The X-Files

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YXn7 TIL that Luxembourg’s education system is trilingual: the first years of primary school are in Luxembourgish, before changing to German, while in secondary school, the language of instruction changes to French.
KYvXR TIL that in 2012, Justin Bieber was pulled over by police and was told that "you waive your rights to privacy when you're a celebrity". He was trying to explain to the officers that he was driving fast so that he could get away from the 5 paparazzi who were recklessly chasing him.
8a8B4 TIL If you're murdered in America, there's a 1 in 3 chance that the police won't identify your killer
Yp11Z TIL the Pentagon was built in less than a year and a half and was only supposed to be temporary
WW0X TIL that Facebook secretly conducted a huge psychological experiment on its users to see if it could alter their emotional state.