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TIL Legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt once broke an umbrella over a theater usher's head when he called her "little Bernhardt". She apologized profusely and 20 years later when the usher retired she bought him a house.

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v1eEL TIL A nurse treated female patient's genitals like a ventriloquist's dummy in front of colleagues. He was examining in front of three colleagues when he “pulled her labia apart and said ‘Hello my name is [Patient A]’, treating her labia like a puppet”, a Nursing and Midwifery Council panel heard.
nOPW TIL that after sweeping the 2004 Oscars, Peter Jackson & Elijah Wood skipped all official celebrations in favour of attending a LOTR fan party.
OyA6 TIL American test scores have always been historically low and they are actually higher today than in the 1960s
bGLa TIL that a man played a game of Civilization II for 10 years resulting in a never ending nuclear war between the player and two AI causing the world to become a ‘hellish nightmare of suffering and devastation’.
Wk1bX TIL: Despite Overwhelming Evidence Against Him, John Wayne Gacy was never "Caught." Instead he folded under constant police surveillance which caused his mental state to deteriorate and cleared to air to his lawyer, who informed the police that he had killed thirty people