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TIL that a woman in my suburb was charged with “assaulting a police officer” after she squirted her own breast milk on said officer.

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xVjO7 TIL in 1958 the filmmaker William Castle came up with one of the most famous movie marketing stunts of all time. Upon purchasing a ticket to the Movie "Macabre" you were also given a $1,000 life insurance policy. If you died of fright during the film, the film promised to pay out to your heirs.
XEWAR TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA star, is actually a published novelist and has written about the adventures of Mycroft Holmes, in addition to other works
x6vpb TIL that Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind had a different English dub back in the 80s called "Warriors of the Wind" and it was incredibly shortened. It was apparently so bad that Hayao Miyazaki adopted a "no cuts" clause for future English releases of Studio Ghibli films.
NXpeP TIL the US Treasury confirmed that penny press souvenir machines do not violate Title 18, Chapter 17 of the U.S. Code on mutilation of currency
Vxk TIL Miranda from Lizzie McGuire was arrested in 2007 for meth possession.